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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) Quickly.
(b) With great emotion.
(c) Extempore, or unprepared.
(d) With intentionality and serious thought.

2. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?
(a) Pettiness.
(b) A guilty conscience.
(c) Sensitivity.
(d) A moral awareness.

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

4. In criticizing the men of his day, whom does Erasmus name?
(a) Thomas More.
(b) No one.
(c) Several political leaders.
(d) The pope.

5. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?
(a) Mature sense.
(b) Moral maturity.
(c) Folly.
(d) Old age.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

3. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?

4. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?

5. How does Folly describe a wise man without emotions?

(see the answer key)

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