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

2. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?
(a) Women.
(b) Gods.
(c) Nymphs.
(d) Animals.

3. Erasmus answers the charge that he is too sarcastic by saying that ________ has always enjoyed freedom to exercise their wit on the common life of man.
(a) The intelligent.
(b) Jesters.
(c) Noblemen.
(d) The insane.

4. Whom does Folly praise?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Rhetoricians.
(c) Herself.
(d) The king.

5. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?
(a) They fall asleep.
(b) They become mad.
(c) They start jeering.
(d) They become cheerful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Because Folly dispenses every benefit to all alike, what does she think she should be named?

3. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?

4. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?

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

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