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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) Women.
(b) Animals.
(c) Gods.
(d) Nymphs.

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

3. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His cloak and dagger.
(b) His previous wife.
(c) His thunderbolt and grimness.
(d) His divinity and anger.

4. Who or what does Folly say provides the gods with laughter, sport, and fun?
(a) Poor mortals.
(b) Legends.
(c) Four-legged creatures.
(d) Themselves.

5. Which group of learned men does Folly mock for cloaking and bearding themselves to command respect?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Poets.
(c) Monks.
(d) Fools.

Short Answer Questions

1. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?

2. By Stoic definition, what does folly mean?

3. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?

4. According to Folly, members of the church hierarchy leave everything to devote themselves to what?

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

(see the answer key)

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