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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 observes priests doing what with their duties?
(a) Questioning them.
(b) Leaving them for another day.
(c) Embracing them wholeheartedly.
(d) Delegating them to subordinates.

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

3. Folly states that a single system of what provides continuous torture for life?
(a) Grammar.
(b) Latin.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Sciences.

4. In the Holy Scriptures, which man says "I speak as a fool, I am more"?
(a) Peter.
(b) Paul.
(c) David.
(d) Christ.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can speak the truth without giving offense, according to Folly?

2. Folly argues that she alone can make sin what?

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

4. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?

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

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