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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 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 play.
(c) A riddle.
(d) An argument.

2. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?
(a) Juvenile.
(b) Squalid.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Innocent.

3. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?
(a) Old Comedy and Tragedy.
(b) Morality Plays.
(c) Old Comedy or Lucian.
(d) Old Comedy or Homer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Folly, to whom does life owe its beginning?

5. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?

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