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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the father of Folly?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Plutus.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

2. To what does Folly recall the elderly?
(a) Childhood.
(b) Fantasies.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Middle Age.

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

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

5. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?
(a) Flattery and Innocence.
(b) Melancholy and Wistfulness.
(c) Drunkennes and Debauchery.
(d) Drunkenness and Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?

2. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?

3. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on his journey to England from where?

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

5. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?

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