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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 states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) Honor.
(b) Himself.
(c) God.
(d) His wife.

2. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Sophistry.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Wisdom.

3. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?
(a) Ovid.
(b) St. Jerome.
(c) The Apostle Paul.
(d) Homer.

4. Whom does Folly consider her sister?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Ignorance.

5. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?
(a) Gentle and generous.
(b) Handsome and charming.
(c) Wise and learned.
(d) Foolish and fond.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Folly begin life?

3. 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?

4. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?

5. Who are the two gods in Folly's household?

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