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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the least deceptive mirror of the mind?
(a) Speech.
(b) Actions.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Looks.

2. What first put the idea of The Praise of Folly into Erasmus's head?
(a) A book he was reading.
(b) His dream.
(c) A humorous event on his trip.
(d) His friend's family name.

3. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?
(a) A moral awareness.
(b) A guilty conscience.
(c) Sensitivity.
(d) Pettiness.

4. Whom does Folly praise?
(a) Herself.
(b) The king.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Rhetoricians.

5. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Harsh words or war.
(b) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(c) Toil, old age, and sickness.
(d) Gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best name for those who are complete fools, but try to pass as wise men?

2. Folly's father is the god of what?

3. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on what?

4. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on his journey to England from where?

5. Erasmus says there is merit in being attacked by whom?

(see the answer key)

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