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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which soldier was "as cowardly in battle as he was skilled in speech-making"?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Quintilian.
(d) Demosthenes.

2. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?
(a) The charm of folly.
(b) Innocence.
(c) The beauty of Helen.
(d) The wisdom of folly.

3. By Stoic definition, what does folly mean?
(a) Moved by the passions.
(b) Belonging to women.
(c) Without wisdom.
(d) Given to frivolity.

4. Which wise man was driven to drink hemlock because of wisdom?
(a) Augustine.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the father of Folly?

3. Erasmus complains that many people find jokes against popes and princes more offensive than what?

4. Folly is the true bestower of what?

5. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?

(see the answer key)

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