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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Folly.
(c) Love.
(d) Wisdom.

2. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?
(a) Folly.
(b) The pope.
(c) More.
(d) Virgil.

3. If someone could look down upon the life of man as Jove does, what does Folly say he would see?
(a) Many blessings.
(b) Great folly.
(c) Many disasters.
(d) Ease and comfort.

4. Folly claims that all emotions belong to whom?
(a) Folly.
(b) Patience.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Venus.

5. Folly argues that she alone can make sin what?
(a) Pardonable.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Enviable.
(d) Tempting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Folly born?

2. What does Erasmus request the recipient of his book to be?

3. According to Folly, who would be disagreeable and disliked if not graced by her divine powers?

4. Those who take pride in their ancestry lead happy lives, thanks to whom?

5. 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?

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