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 man's mind is most susceptible to what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Falsehoods.
(c) Truth.
(d) Facts.

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

3. Which character represents "flattery given to another"?
(a) Venus.
(b) Neptune.
(c) Folly.
(d) Kolakia.

4. Who are under the protection of the gods and Folly?
(a) Children.
(b) Fools.
(c) Animals.
(d) Gods.

5. What is Folly's temple?
(a) The whole world.
(b) The minds of men.
(c) The sky.
(d) The ocean.

6. Which group of learned men does Folly mock for cloaking and bearding themselves to command respect?
(a) Fools.
(b) Poets.
(c) Monks.
(d) Philosophers.

7. Whom does Folly quote as an authority who praises her by saying, "The world is full of fools"?
(a) More.
(b) Euripides .
(c) Paul the Apostle.
(d) Cicero.

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

9. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?
(a) Human.
(b) Wise.
(c) Neglected.
(d) Divine.

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

11. Folly states that a single system of what provides continuous torture for life?
(a) Latin.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Medicine.

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

13. Who or what does Folly say provides the gods with laughter, sport, and fun?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Four-legged creatures.
(c) Poor mortals.
(d) Legends.

14. Who does Folly call unpopular, although they are happy because of their self-satisfaction?
(a) Monks.
(b) Women.
(c) Children.
(d) Merchants.

15. How many statues does Folly have?
(a) As many as there are stars in the sky.
(b) As many as there are jesters.
(c) As many as there are men who wear her image.
(d) As many as there are fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Folly, believes they support the church by their syllogisms, and without them it would fall?

2. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?

3. Which god claims to free the mind from care?

4. What do men gain by hunting, in Folly's opinion?

5. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?

(see the answer keys)

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