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

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

3. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?
(a) Deception.
(b) Force.
(c) Love.
(d) Madness.

4. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?
(a) More.
(b) Folly.
(c) The pope.
(d) Virgil.

5. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Sophistry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Folly, who would be disagreeable and disliked if not graced by her divine powers?

2. What calmed a violent Roman mob?

3. In Folly's opinion, what develops prudence?

4. According to Folly, who shows the way to perfect wisdom?

5. Which nymph among Folly's aids claps her hands, with laughter in her eyes?

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