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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Folly, who provides all advantages in life?
(a) Self-love.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Folly.
(d) Athena.

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

3. Erasmus complains that many people find jokes against popes and princes more offensive than what?
(a) Murder.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Blasphemy.
(d) Perjury.

4. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?
(a) Deception.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Madness.

5. Instead of that which concerns the body, what does Folly state that the pious contemplate?
(a) Visible things.
(b) Invisible things.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Earthly things.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?

2. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?

3. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

4. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

5. Which wise men of his day did Folly say that Christ attacked?

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