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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) Honor.
(b) His wife.
(c) Himself.
(d) God.

2. Who, according to Folly, believes they support the church by their syllogisms, and without them it would fall?
(a) The apostles.
(b) Logicians.
(c) Schoolmasters.
(d) Theologians.

3. Who comprises the happiest group of people, according to Folly?
(a) Liars, cheats, robbers, and swindlers.
(b) Idiots, fools, nitwits, and simpletons.
(c) The wise.
(d) The learned.

4. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Homer.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aquinas.

5. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?
(a) Evil spirits.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Folly.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Folly states that which group of people listens to the preaching of monks?

4. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?

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

(see the answer key)

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