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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly considers emotions to be what in relation to wisdom?
(a) Deterrents.
(b) Masters.
(c) Slaves and subjects.
(d) Guides and incentives.

2. In the Holy Scriptures, which man says "I speak as a fool, I am more"?
(a) Christ.
(b) Paul.
(c) Peter.
(d) David.

3. Who is the father of Folly?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Plutus.
(d) Poseidon.

4. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?
(a) Madness.
(b) Force.
(c) Deception.
(d) Love.

5. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Aquinas.
(b) Plato.
(c) Homer.
(d) Sophocles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who segregated passions from the wise man?

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.

4. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?

5. Folly compares pious men to the men in whose myth?

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