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

2. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His cloak and dagger.
(b) His divinity and anger.
(c) His previous wife.
(d) His thunderbolt and grimness.

3. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?
(a) 1598.
(b) 1508.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1550.

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

5. According to Erasmus, nothing is more entertaining than treating what in such a way as to make it clear you are doing anything but trifling with them?
(a) Political leaders.
(b) Serious subjects.
(c) Readers.
(d) Trivialities.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?

3. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

4. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?

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

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