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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 that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Sophistry.
(d) Pleasure.

2. Whom does Folly consider her sister?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Ignorance.

3. Who does Folly say refutes pagan philosophers by their way of life rather than syllogisms?
(a) Priests.
(b) Monks.
(c) The apostles.
(d) Theologians.

4. Who does Folly call unpopular, although they are happy because of their self-satisfaction?
(a) Monks.
(b) Children.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are poets not as much in debt to Folly as schoolmasters are?

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

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

4. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?

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

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