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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?
(a) Honorific titles.
(b) Music.
(c) Pedantic poetry.
(d) Serious prose.

2. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?
(a) A king.
(b) A schoolmaster.
(c) A courtier.
(d) A monk.

3. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?
(a) The mundane.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Serious subjects.
(d) Jokes.

4. In Folly's opinion, what develops prudence?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Hope.
(c) Flattery.
(d) Experience.

5. To whom does God reveal the mystery of salvation, according to Folly?
(a) Little children.
(b) Lawyers and theologians.
(c) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(d) The wise.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erasmus states that his praise of folly has not been altogether what?

2. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?

3. Which group of learned men does Folly mock for cloaking and bearding themselves to command respect?

4. What does Folly believe comes only when the soul is given immortality in heaven?

5. In creation, God forbade man to eat of which tree?

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