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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 - 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?
(a) Life.
(b) Folly.
(c) Energy.
(d) Wisdom.

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

3. Erasmus answers the charge that he is too sarcastic by saying that ________ has always enjoyed freedom to exercise their wit on the common life of man.
(a) Noblemen.
(b) Jesters.
(c) The intelligent.
(d) The insane.

4. Which god was given a name that means "foolish" in Greek?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Venus.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Bacchus.

5. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?
(a) Minds.
(b) Lives.
(c) Tongues.
(d) Hands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?

2. What do men gain by hunting, in Folly's opinion?

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

4. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?

5. Folly claims that all emotions belong to whom?

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