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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Folly, who would be disagreeable and disliked if not graced by her divine powers?
(a) The Stoics.
(b) The gods.
(c) The Sophists.
(d) The nobility.

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

3. What does Folly say that priests battle for?
(a) Folly.
(b) The souls of their flock.
(c) Their tithes.
(d) Their theology.

4. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Sophistry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?

2. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?

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

4. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?

5. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?

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