The Praise of Folly Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Praise of Folly Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly states that Christ compared himself with which foolish animal?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A dog.
(d) A lamb.

2. Which insect does Folly consider happy for following its natural instincts?
(a) The bee.
(b) The grasshopper.
(c) The wasp.
(d) The butterfly.

3. What does Folly say that priests battle for?
(a) The souls of their flock.
(b) Their tithes.
(c) Folly.
(d) Their theology.

4. What does the name "Bishop" mean?
(a) Savior.
(b) Deceiver.
(c) Overseer.
(d) Fool.

5. In the Holy Scriptures, which man says "I speak as a fool, I am more"?
(a) David.
(b) Peter.
(c) Christ.
(d) Paul.

6. Those born foolish are free from what?
(a) Fears and pangs of conscience.
(b) Happiness and bliss.
(c) Jobs and occupations.
(d) Prison.

7. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?
(a) A courtier.
(b) A king.
(c) A monk.
(d) A schoolmaster.

8. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?
(a) Love.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Folly.
(d) Wisdom.

9. Because they are amusing, Folly claims that fools are the favorites of whom?
(a) The gods.
(b) Children.
(c) Animals.
(d) Kings.

10. Whom does Folly describe as "thrifty, impoverished, miserable, grumpy, harsh and unjust to himself, disagreeable and prematurely white-haired and senile . . ."?
(a) The idiot.
(b) The wise man.
(c) The fool.
(d) The aged man.

11. Whom does Fortune favor?
(a) The cautious and wise.
(b) The slow and ambling.
(c) The lazy and insipid.
(d) The injudicious and venturesome.

12. Folly says that God takes great pleasure in whom?
(a) Fools.
(b) A select few.
(c) The wise.
(d) His apostles only.

13. Who does Folly say refutes pagan philosophers by their way of life rather than syllogisms?
(a) Monks.
(b) Theologians.
(c) The apostles.
(d) Priests.

14. Who, according to Folly, believes they support the church by their syllogisms, and without them it would fall?
(a) Theologians.
(b) Logicians.
(c) The apostles.
(d) Schoolmasters.

15. Who can speak the truth without giving offense, according to Folly?
(a) Rhetoricians.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Kings.
(d) Fools.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Stoics believed that nothing is as pitiable as what?

2. Which book of the Bible does Folly first quote as speaking on her behalf?

3. Among the learned men, whom does Folly call the most self-satisfied?

4. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?

5. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?

(see the answer keys)

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