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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Rise of the English Essay- Page 113-211.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about the Montaigne essay title, "Of a Monstrous Child?"?
(a) The child talked about is in fact saintly and kind.
(b) Montaigne is obliquely refer to gluttony, stating that it is born "of a monstrous child."
(c) The "monster" is a man who only behaves like a child.
(d) Montaigne is in fact arguing that nothing is "monstrous" by nature.

2. What does Montaigne conclude in "Of a Monstrous Child?"
(a) Deformed babies should be killed at birth.
(b) Towns should pursue an "eye for eye" system of justice.
(c) Doctors are nothing but charlatans and quacks.
(d) Nothing is contrary to nature; everything is natural.

3. Which famous author does Michel de Montaigne rely upon for several quotations in the final essay in the volume?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Cato the Elder.
(d) Aristotle.

4. Seneca the Younger adheres to which school of philosophy?
(a) Nihilism.
(b) Agrarianism.
(c) Stoicism.
(d) Phenomenology.

5. What is Michel de Montaigne considered to be?
(a) The greatest biographer who ever lived.
(b) The greatest essayist who ever lived.
(c) The greatest playwright who ever lived.
(d) The greatest poet who ever lived.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is NOT one of the essays written by Ou-Yank Hsiu?

2. Where does Montaigne retire to study and write?

3. Who wrote "An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification?"

4. What is the disposition of the eunuch Montaigne describes in "Of a Monstrous Child?"

5. When was Seneca the Younger born?

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