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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Folly, man's happiness depends not upon facts, but upon what?
(a) His possessions.
(b) His money.
(c) His opinions.
(d) His friends.

2. Folly states that not wanting more than your share of wisdom is a true sign of what?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Folly.
(c) Stupidity.
(d) Prudence.

3. Who segregated passions from the wise man?
(a) Socrates.
(b) The Epicureans.
(c) The Sophists.
(d) The Stoics.

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

5. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?
(a) Children.
(b) Literature.
(c) Animals.
(d) Theologians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the least deceptive mirror of the mind?

2. Folly's father is the god of what?

3. Who comprises the happiest group of people, according to Folly?

4. Which soldier was "as cowardly in battle as he was skilled in speech-making"?

5. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?

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