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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Greek word for "folly"?
(a) Follia.
(b) Utopia.
(c) Levity.
(d) Moria.

3. To what does Folly recall the elderly?
(a) Childhood.
(b) Fantasies.
(c) Middle Age.
(d) Wisdom.

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

5. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?
(a) Moral maturity.
(b) Mature sense.
(c) Old age.
(d) Folly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?

3. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

4. Erasmus predicts that his book will be criticized as being what?

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

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