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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?
(a) The Sophists.
(b) Monks.
(c) Homer.
(d) Lucian.

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

3. Orators prepare long speeches to do what Folly does with her what?
(a) Riddles.
(b) Speech.
(c) Looks.
(d) Laughter.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Erasmus predicts that his book will be criticized as being what?

2. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

3. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?

4. Erasmus complains that many people find jokes against popes and princes more offensive than what?

5. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?

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