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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Love.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Desire to please her husband.
(d) Maternal instinct.

2. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?
(a) Defoe.
(b) Augustine.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Virgil.

3. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?
(a) Allegorical interpretation.
(b) Warning and advice.
(c) Criticism and dissent.
(d) Innocent jokes.

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

5. Erasmus states that jokes can be handled in such a way that a reader finds more reward in them than in a what?
(a) A riddle.
(b) An argument.
(c) A treatise.
(d) A play.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

2. How does Folly claim she is delivering her speech?

3. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?

4. According to Erasmus, nothing is more entertaining than treating what in such a way as to make it clear you are doing anything but trifling with them?

5. Erasmus says there is merit in being attacked by whom?

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