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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What scholar is quoted in the opening of Book 2 of Essays: Essay #1?
(a) Terrence.
(b) Hume.
(c) Smith.
(d) Kant.
2. In the culture Montaigne describes, women were discouraged from visiting public baths if they were what?
(a) Sexually promiscuous.
(b) Younger than eighteen.
(c) Divorced.
(d) Unescorted.
3. What advantage does Montaigne say that women have in entering into marriage?
(a) They have significantly greater social standing once married.
(b) They are well-educated about it.
(c) They are psychologically equipped for it.
(d) They have many modern rights.
4. Montaigne treated women without what?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Tolerance.
(c) Disrespect.
(d) Understanding.
5. Which historian does Montaigne discuss as having written one of the first official histories of Rome?
(a) Livicitus.
(b) Pliny.
(c) Cato.
(d) Livy.
Short Answer Questions
1. At what city along Montaigne's path does French stop being the predominant language?
2. What abstract concept does Montaigne say he would not marry?
3. What ancient writer does Montaigne discuss near the beginning of Book 3 of Essays: Chapter 11?
4. Montaigne suggests that which of the following contributed most to his performance as a husband?
5. Where did Montaigne end the journeys that he describes in his travel journal?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Montaigne write his travel journals?
2. What are Montaigne's influences in his "Apology to Raymond Sebond"?
3. What does Montaigne say about truth?
4. Describe the course of Montaigne's journey described in Travel Journal: Chapter 15.
5. Why did Montaigne undertake his travels?
6. What does Montaigne say about the differences in the desires of men and women?
7. According to the note at the beginning of Book 3 of Essays: Chapter 12, why is the editor interested in Montaigne's travel journals?
8. Why does Montaigne admire Cato?
9. What church promotion occurred in Trent while Montaigne was there?
10. What did the notorious criminal Catena once force two men to do before he killed them?
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