1. What treatment of children by parents does Montaigne cite as leading to specific character traits?
(a) Neglect.
(b) Violence.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Scolding.

2. In Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #10, Montaigne says that the people he discusses view scars as marks of what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Bravery.
(c) Strength.
(d) Beauty.

3. Montaigne suggests that it is difficult to do what with war horses?
(a) Tend them.
(b) Breed them.
(c) Train them.
(d) Mount them.

4. What social class was Montaigne born into?
(a) Foreign class.
(b) The nobility.
(c) The merchant class.
(d) The commoner's class.

5. What philosopher did Montaigne believe to have been a major influence on the unusual book that he translated?
(a) St. Thomas Aquinas.
(b) John Locke.
(c) Demosthenes.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne says that he feels what way with regards to knowing one individual who was brought back to Christianity due to the arguments in the book he discusses in Book 2 of Essay's: Chapter 7?

2. What does the unusual rule Montaigne discusses in Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Essay #48 stipulate?

3. What major disease hit Bordeaux while Montaigne was in office there?

4. What country did Montaigne's mother come from?

5. Near the end of Book 1 of Essays: Chapter 3, Montaigne discusses two men who suffer from what?

(see the answer key)

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