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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Folly born?
(a) The Islands of the Blest.
(b) Wandering Delos.
(c) A hollow cave.
(d) The Island of Troy.

2. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?
(a) Drunkenness and Ignorance.
(b) Melancholy and Wistfulness.
(c) Flattery and Innocence.
(d) Drunkennes and Debauchery.

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

4. Whom does Folly praise?
(a) The king.
(b) Rhetoricians.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Herself.

5. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?
(a) St. Jerome.
(b) The Apostle Paul.
(c) Homer.
(d) Ovid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?

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

4. Folly is the true bestower of what?

5. Folly's father is the god of what?

(see the answer key)

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