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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?
(a) Honorific titles.
(b) Music.
(c) Pedantic poetry.
(d) Serious prose.

2. According to Folly, who stretch the Holy Scriptures like a tanner with a hide?
(a) Rhetoricians.
(b) Priests.
(c) Theologians.
(d) Folly.

3. Whom does Folly consider happier than Odysseus (also known as Ulysses)?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Gryllus.

4. What do men gain by hunting, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Degeneration.
(b) Maturity.
(c) Meat.
(d) Masculinity.

5. How was Folly born?
(a) Her father married her mother.
(b) She does not know.
(c) Her father made her spring from his brain.
(d) Her father laid with a nymph.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?

4. How does Folly describe the whole life of man?

5. Folly considers emotions to be what in relation to wisdom?

(see the answer key)

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