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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three things does Folly exhort her listeners to do at the end of her speech?
(a) Die young, sing often, and remember her.
(b) Live well, sing often, and dance.
(c) Remember her words, pursue wisdom, and live long.
(d) Clap their hands, live well, and drink.

2. What kind of audience does Folly say she hates?
(a) One that claps.
(b) One that laughs.
(c) One that does not forget.
(d) One that forgets.

3. Folly states that the pious wage war with what?
(a) Folly.
(b) Affections of the soul, such as lust and hunger.
(c) Affections of the soul, such as love and honor.
(d) Their souls.

4. Who protested when his friends rescued him from delusion?
(a) Homer's Odysseus.
(b) Horace's Argive.
(c) Barnabas.
(d) Achilles.

5. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) God.
(b) Honor.
(c) Himself.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?

2. What does Erasmus request the recipient of his book to be?

3. What is Folly's temple?

4. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?

5. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?

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