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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Folly, to whom does life owe its beginning?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Folly.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) God.

2. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Babies.
(c) Learning.
(d) Divorce.

3. What must one do to be considered a god, according to Folly?
(a) Be immortal.
(b) Help mortals.
(c) Have divine powers.
(d) Be born of a god.

4. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?
(a) The pope.
(b) Folly.
(c) Virgil.
(d) More.

5. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?
(a) They become mad.
(b) They become cheerful.
(c) They fall asleep.
(d) They start jeering.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Folly born?

2. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?

3. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?

4. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?

5. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?

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