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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Love.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Maternal instinct.
(d) Desire to please her husband.

2. Who speaks at the beginning of The Praise of Folly?
(a) More.
(b) Homer.
(c) Praise.
(d) Folly.

3. What does Folly say will absorb the body in heaven?
(a) The supreme Mind.
(b) Folly.
(c) The body.
(d) The spirit.

4. Erasmus states that jokes can be handled in such a way that a reader finds more reward in them than in a what?
(a) A play.
(b) A treatise.
(c) A riddle.
(d) An argument.

5. To whom did Erasmus dedicate The Praise of Folly?
(a) Homer.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Thomas More.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which wise man was driven to drink hemlock because of wisdom?

2. Whom does Folly quote as an authority who praises her by saying, "The world is full of fools"?

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

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

5. Men seek from saints that which belongs to whom?

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