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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Folly state is necessary for friendship?
(a) Folly.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Reason.

4. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?
(a) Morality Plays.
(b) Old Comedy or Lucian.
(c) Old Comedy or Homer.
(d) Old Comedy and Tragedy.

5. Folly is the true bestower of what?
(a) Long life.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Charm.
(d) Good things.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?

4. In criticizing the men of his day, whom does Erasmus name?

5. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?

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