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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?
(a) Nymphs.
(b) Women.
(c) Gods.
(d) Animals.

2. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?
(a) Gentle and generous.
(b) Handsome and charming.
(c) Foolish and fond.
(d) Wise and learned.

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

4. Of the fools, who does Folly say handles the meanest sort of business by the meanest methods?
(a) Poets.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Rhetoricians.

5. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?
(a) Nature.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Flattery.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Folly, who would be disagreeable and disliked if not graced by her divine powers?

3. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?

4. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?

5. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?

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