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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the two gods in Folly's household?
(a) Zeus and Mars.
(b) Zeus and Theseus.
(c) Revelry and Sound Sleep.
(d) Mirth and Longevity.

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

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

4. According to Folly, who shows the way to perfect wisdom?
(a) Flattery.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Folly.
(d) Wisdom.

5. Who said, "Happy the states where either philosophers are kings or kings are philosophers"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Lucian.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?

2. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?

3. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?

4. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

5. To whom did Erasmus dedicate The Praise of Folly?

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