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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?
(a) 1550.
(b) 1508.
(c) 1500.
(d) 1598.

2. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?
(a) Criticism and dissent.
(b) Warning and advice.
(c) Innocent jokes.
(d) Allegorical interpretation.

3. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?
(a) A moral awareness.
(b) Pettiness.
(c) Sensitivity.
(d) A guilty conscience.

4. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?
(a) Lucian.
(b) Homer.
(c) The Sophists.
(d) Monks.

5. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?
(a) They become mad.
(b) They start jeering.
(c) They fall asleep.
(d) They become cheerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Greek word for "folly"?

2. Erasmus states that jokes can be handled in such a way that a reader finds more reward in them than in a what?

3. Erasmus follows the well-known popular proverb that states that a man should do what?

4. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?

5. Erasmus states that his praise of folly has not been altogether what?

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