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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 state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?
(a) Madness.
(b) Deception.
(c) Force.
(d) Love.

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

3. According to Folly, members of the church hierarchy leave everything to devote themselves to what?
(a) Debates.
(b) God.
(c) Games.
(d) War.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which animal does Folly pity for being made to work with men?

3. Which insect does Folly consider happy for following its natural instincts?

4. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?

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

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