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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Folly claim she is delivering her speech?
(a) Extempore, or unprepared.
(b) With great emotion.
(c) Quickly.
(d) With intentionality and serious thought.

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

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

4. Who segregated passions from the wise man?
(a) The Sophists.
(b) Socrates.
(c) The Stoics.
(d) The Epicureans.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Folly is the true bestower of what?

2. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?

3. According to Folly, what is the seed and source of all deeds which win praise?

4. Erasmus follows the well-known popular proverb that states that a man should do what?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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