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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?
(a) Chaucer.
(b) Defoe.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Augustine.

2. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) The greatest fools.
(b) The learned.
(c) The noblemen.
(d) Madmen.

3. Because Folly dispenses every benefit to all alike, what does she think she should be named?
(a) "Goddess Divine."
(b) "Benefactor" of all men.
(c) "Alpha" of all gods.
(d) "Fountain of Blessings"

4. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Sophistry.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Wisdom.

5. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His divinity and anger.
(b) His thunderbolt and grimness.
(c) His previous wife.
(d) His cloak and dagger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Folly is the true bestower of what?

3. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?

4. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

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

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