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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly's father is the god of what?
(a) Riches.
(b) Peace.
(c) War.
(d) Pleasure.

2. Folly is the true bestower of what?
(a) Charm.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Long life.
(d) Good things.

3. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?
(a) Life.
(b) Folly.
(c) Energy.
(d) Wisdom.

4. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?
(a) The mundane.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Jokes.
(d) Serious subjects.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Happy the states where either philosophers are kings or kings are philosophers"?

2. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?

3. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?

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

5. Who are the two gods in Folly's household?

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