Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Travel Journal : Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major factor significantly diminished the place of women in Britain?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Coastal trade.
(c) Metal smithing.
(d) The Magna Carta.

2. Montaigne describes how soldiers sometimes do what in desperate times?
(a) Trade their war horses for normal mounts.
(b) Eat their horses.
(c) Drink the blood of their horses.
(d) Sell their horses and armor.

3. Which of the following does NOT well-classify the quotations that Montaigne uses throughout his essays?
(a) Short.
(b) Inexplicable.
(c) Diverse.
(d) Numerous.

4. How is Raymond Sebond related to the unusual book that Montaigne translated?
(a) He tried to censor it.
(b) He published it.
(c) He wrote it.
(d) He criticized it roundly.

5. In the culture Montaigne describes, women were discouraged from visiting public baths if they were what?
(a) Younger than eighteen.
(b) Sexually promiscuous.
(c) Unescorted.
(d) Divorced.

Short Answer Questions

1. Montaigne suggests that a kindly person goes through life inclined towards what?

2. Which language, besides Latin, did Montaigne hear the mass given in during the holiday mass he observed at Saint Peter's?

3. Which historian does Montaigne discuss as having written one of the first official histories of Rome?

4. What ancient writer does Montaigne discuss near the beginning of Book 3 of Essays: Chapter 11?

5. In one of Montaigne's stories about mercy, what position does Conrad hold?

(see the answer key)

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