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

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

3. Who is the father of Folly?
(a) Plutus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Poseidon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?

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

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

4. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

5. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?

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