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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) The gardens of Adonis.
(b) Onions.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) The tree of life.

2. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?
(a) Madness.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Deception.

3. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?
(a) Trivialities.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Gods and heroes.
(d) The learned.

4. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Harsh words or war.
(c) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(d) Toil, old age, and sickness.

5. Where was Folly born?
(a) The Islands of the Blest.
(b) A hollow cave.
(c) The Island of Troy.
(d) Wandering Delos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must one do to be considered a god, according to Folly?

2. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?

3. According to Erasmus, nothing is more entertaining than treating what in such a way as to make it clear you are doing anything but trifling with them?

4. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

5. Whom does Folly consider her sister?

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