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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comprises the happiest group of people, according to Folly?
(a) Idiots, fools, nitwits, and simpletons.
(b) Liars, cheats, robbers, and swindlers.
(c) The wise.
(d) The learned.

2. Why are poets not as much in debt to Folly as schoolmasters are?
(a) Poets are more foolish.
(b) Poets are a free race.
(c) There are fewer poets.
(d) Poets do not live as long as schoolmasters.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?

2. Because they are amusing, Folly claims that fools are the favorites of whom?

3. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?

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

5. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?

(see the answer key)

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