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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comprises the happiest group of people, according to Folly?
(a) The wise.
(b) Liars, cheats, robbers, and swindlers.
(c) The learned.
(d) Idiots, fools, nitwits, and simpletons.

2. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?
(a) The Bronze Age.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) The Age of Innocence.
(d) The Golden Age.

3. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Folly.
(d) Self-love.

4. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Aquinas.

5. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) God.
(b) Himself.
(c) Honor.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?

2. Among the learned men, whom does Folly call the most self-satisfied?

3. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?

4. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?

5. Which god was given a name that means "foolish" in Greek?

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