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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 is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(b) Harsh words or war.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Toil, old age, and sickness.

2. Erasmus states that jokes can be handled in such a way that a reader finds more reward in them than in a what?
(a) A treatise.
(b) A riddle.
(c) A play.
(d) An argument.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who considers themselves gods on earth if they can use Greek words in their speeches?

2. How did Folly begin life?

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

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

5. How does Folly claim she is delivering her speech?

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