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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?
(a) Lucian.
(b) Homer.
(c) The Sophists.
(d) Monks.

3. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?
(a) The last.
(b) None.
(c) The middle.
(d) The first.

4. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) The learned.
(b) Madmen.
(c) The greatest fools.
(d) The noblemen.

5. To whom did Erasmus dedicate The Praise of Folly?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) Thomas More.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?

2. Who segregated passions from the wise man?

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

4. According to Folly, what kind of man is unlucky in regards to children?

5. How does Folly describe the whole life of man?

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