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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Toil, old age, and sickness.
(d) Harsh words or war.

2. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?
(a) Self-love.
(b) Athena.
(c) Folly.
(d) Zeus.

3. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?
(a) Innocence.
(b) The wisdom of folly.
(c) The charm of folly.
(d) The beauty of Helen.

4. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) The tree of life.
(c) Onions.
(d) The gardens of Adonis.

5. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?
(a) Old Comedy or Homer.
(b) Morality Plays.
(c) Old Comedy and Tragedy.
(d) Old Comedy or Lucian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the two gods in Folly's household?

2. Which nymph among Folly's aids claps her hands, with laughter in her eyes?

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

4. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?

5. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?

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