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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Onions.
(b) The tree of life.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) The gardens of Adonis.

2. Erasmus complains that many people find jokes against popes and princes more offensive than what?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Murder.
(c) Blasphemy.
(d) Perjury.

3. What is the least deceptive mirror of the mind?
(a) Actions.
(b) Looks.
(c) Speech.
(d) Eyes.

4. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?
(a) Juvenile.
(b) Squalid.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Innocent.

5. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?
(a) Serious subjects.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Jokes.
(d) The mundane.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on what?

2. How was Folly born?

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

4. Who speaks at the beginning of The Praise of Folly?

5. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?

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