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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?
(a) Babies.
(b) Divorce.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Learning.

3. 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 riddle.
(c) A treatise.
(d) An argument.

4. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) The learned.
(d) Gods and heroes.

5. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?
(a) Sensitivity.
(b) A guilty conscience.
(c) A moral awareness.
(d) Pettiness.

6. Because Folly dispenses every benefit to all alike, what does she think she should be named?
(a) "Alpha" of all gods.
(b) "Benefactor" of all men.
(c) "Goddess Divine."
(d) "Fountain of Blessings"

7. Folly claims that all emotions belong to whom?
(a) Self-love.
(b) Folly.
(c) Patience.
(d) Venus.

8. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?
(a) Squalid.
(b) Innocent.
(c) Intelligent.
(d) Juvenile.

9. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?
(a) Folly.
(b) Energy.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Life.

10. Which nymph among Folly's aids claps her hands, with laughter in her eyes?
(a) Drunkenness.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Mirth.
(d) Delight.

11. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?
(a) Old Comedy or Lucian.
(b) Morality Plays.
(c) Old Comedy and Tragedy.
(d) Old Comedy or Homer.

12. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?
(a) The charm of folly.
(b) Innocence.
(c) The wisdom of folly.
(d) The beauty of Helen.

13. What does Erasmus request the recipient of his book to be?
(a) An editor of his book.
(b) A dedicated follower of Folly.
(c) A stout champion to Folly.
(d) A persecutor of Folly.

14. What is the Greek word for "folly"?
(a) Utopia.
(b) Moria.
(c) Follia.
(d) Levity.

15. Which soldier was "as cowardly in battle as he was skilled in speech-making"?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Demosthenes.
(c) Quintilian.
(d) Cicero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?

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

3. What first put the idea of The Praise of Folly into Erasmus's head?

4. Who considers themselves gods on earth if they can use Greek words in their speeches?

5. According to Folly, who shows the way to perfect wisdom?

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