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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Folly recall the elderly?
(a) Fantasies.
(b) Childhood.
(c) Middle Age.
(d) Wisdom.

2. Of the fools, who does Folly say handles the meanest sort of business by the meanest methods?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Poets.
(c) Rhetoricians.
(d) Merchants.

3. Who are under the protection of the gods and Folly?
(a) Fools.
(b) Gods.
(c) Animals.
(d) Children.

4. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?
(a) The first.
(b) None.
(c) The middle.
(d) The last.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?

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

3. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?

4. Which animal does Folly pity for being made to work with men?

5. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?

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