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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In criticizing the men of his day, whom does Erasmus name?
(a) Thomas More.
(b) No one.
(c) The pope.
(d) Several political leaders.

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

4. Who speaks at the beginning of The Praise of Folly?
(a) Folly.
(b) Praise.
(c) Homer.
(d) More.

5. Whom does Folly consider her sister?
(a) Self-love.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Pleasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?

2. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on his journey to England from where?

3. Orators prepare long speeches to do what Folly does with her what?

4. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?

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

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