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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly states that men create art because of a thirst for what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Fame.
(c) Independence.
(d) Money.

2. Orators prepare long speeches to do what Folly does with her what?
(a) Riddles.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Speech.
(d) Looks.

3. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on his journey to England from where?
(a) Italy.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) Greece.

4. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) The greatest fools.
(b) Madmen.
(c) The learned.
(d) The noblemen.

5. How was Folly born?
(a) Her father laid with a nymph.
(b) Her father married her mother.
(c) Her father made her spring from his brain.
(d) She does not know.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?

2. Folly claims that all emotions belong to whom?

3. According to Folly, what is the seed and source of all deeds which win praise?

4. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

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

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