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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 was Folly born?
(a) Her father married her mother.
(b) Her father made her spring from his brain.
(c) She does not know.
(d) Her father laid with a nymph.

2. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?
(a) Gentle and generous.
(b) Wise and learned.
(c) Foolish and fond.
(d) Handsome and charming.

3. Whom does Folly consider her sister?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Ignorance.

4. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?
(a) Ovid.
(b) Homer.
(c) The Apostle Paul.
(d) St. Jerome.

5. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His thunderbolt and grimness.
(b) His cloak and dagger.
(c) His previous wife.
(d) His divinity and anger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the best name for those who are complete fools, but try to pass as wise men?

3. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?

4. Erasmus predicts that his book will be criticized as being what?

5. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?

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