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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Travel Journal : Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Montaigne's religion?
(a) Zoroastrianism.
(b) Calvinism.
(c) Lutheranism.
(d) Catholicism.

2. Montaigne's secretary favorably compares their lodgings in Rome to what location?
(a) The Gilded Lilly.
(b) The Gold Vase.
(c) The Saucer.
(d) The Rose.

3. What important female leader was a native of Montaigne's nation?
(a) Queen Isabelle.
(b) Joan of Arc.
(c) Dido.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

4. In Travel Journal: Chapter 13, Montaigne describes a priest who speaks what out-of-place language as part of his services?
(a) German.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

5. What was Montaigne's father's opinion on education?
(a) He valued it.
(b) He thought it was only for the middle class.
(c) He dismissed it.
(d) He thought it was too expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne suggests that the difference between a man and an animal is less than the difference between a man and what?

2. How many famous women does Montaigne quote in his books of essays?

3. In the culture Montaigne describes, women were discouraged from visiting public baths if they were what?

4. What language was the unusual book that Montaigne's father came into possession of written in?

5. Montaigne acknowledges that it is less of a vice to lie in order to avoid which of the following?

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