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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Folly.

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

5. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Maternal instinct.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Desire to please her husband.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must one do to be considered a god, according to Folly?

2. Whom does Folly describe as "thrifty, impoverished, miserable, grumpy, harsh and unjust to himself, disagreeable and prematurely white-haired and senile . . ."?

3. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?

4. According to Folly, if a doctor is foolish, what soars higher?

5. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?

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