Read the excerpt below and answer the question. I conceive there is more barbarlty In eating a man alive, than when he is dead; In tearing a body limb from
limb by racks and torments, that is yet in perfect sense; in roasting it by degrees; In causing it to be bitten and
worried by dogs and swine (as we have not only read, but lately seen, not among inveterate and mortal
enemies, but among nelghbors and fellow-citizens, and, which is worse, under color of plety and religion),
than to roast and eat him after he is dead.
What is Montaigne's purpose in saying this?
He is addressing the treatment of animals in his own community
He is explaining why he thinks that cannibalism is a wise idea.
He is criticizing the way his own government treats its enemies.
He is asserting that he thinks it is a bad idea to eat people alive.

Excerpt from “mundra” by emily t. sheets part a what is a central idea of this story? a. mundra and her mother-in-law struggle to build a relationship. b. mundra has difficulty adjusting to life after she loses her parents. c. a young woman works to do all that she can to gain acceptance from her community. d. a young woman demonstrates tremendous strength while enduring cruel treatment. part b which quotation from the story best develops the response to part a? a. “at first their death had meant little to the child for she was no longer a part of their household.” b. “at the time of mundra's wedding the people had been anxious because rain had not come and the crops were dying.” c. “"bring water," the old woman commanded fiercely and with a thrust of her foot sent the child, who had reached the door by that time, reeling in the direction of a large brass water pot which stood in a corner of the mud porch." d. “the small, dark, thin figure walked very straight because of the jar on the head, not from any sense of pride, for what had mundra to be proud of? ”