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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?
(a) Innocence.
(b) The charm of folly.
(c) The wisdom of folly.
(d) The beauty of Helen.

2. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Nature.
(d) Happiness.

3. To whom does God reveal the mystery of salvation, according to Folly?
(a) The wise.
(b) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(c) Little children.
(d) Lawyers and theologians.

4. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?
(a) Praying.
(b) Learning.
(c) Instinct.
(d) Sleeping.

5. According to Folly, man's happiness depends not upon facts, but upon what?
(a) His money.
(b) His possessions.
(c) His friends.
(d) His opinions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erasmus complains that many people find jokes against popes and princes more offensive than what?

2. According to Folly, to whom does life owe its beginning?

3. Erasmus answers the charge that he is too sarcastic by saying that ________ has always enjoyed freedom to exercise their wit on the common life of man.

4. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?

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

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