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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34 - 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which group of people is Folly doubtful about admitting to her fellowship?
(a) Troubadours.
(b) Thieves.
(c) Gamblers.
(d) Jesters.

3. Which wise men of his day did Folly say that Christ attacked?
(a) Pharisees, scribes, and teachers of the Law.
(b) Rabbis.
(c) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(d) Schoolmasters.

4. The Stoics believed that nothing is as pitiable as what?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Religious devotion.
(c) Grief.
(d) Insanity.

5. Which nation shows its self-love by claiming a monopoly on polite manners?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Russia.
(c) Austria.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Folly is the true bestower of what?

3. Folly says that God takes great pleasure in whom?

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

5. Who segregated passions from the wise man?

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