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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Folly claim she is delivering her speech?
(a) Extempore, or unprepared.
(b) With intentionality and serious thought.
(c) Quickly.
(d) With great emotion.

2. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?
(a) The Apostle Paul.
(b) Homer.
(c) St. Jerome.
(d) Ovid.

3. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?
(a) 1500.
(b) 1508.
(c) 1550.
(d) 1598.

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

5. To whom did Erasmus dedicate The Praise of Folly?
(a) Martin Luther.
(b) Henry VIII.
(c) Thomas More.
(d) Homer.

6. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?
(a) Women.
(b) Animals.
(c) Gods.
(d) Nymphs.

7. According to Erasmus, nothing is more entertaining than treating what in such a way as to make it clear you are doing anything but trifling with them?
(a) Readers.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Political leaders.
(d) Serious subjects.

8. 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.
(a) Noblemen.
(b) Jesters.
(c) The insane.
(d) The intelligent.

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

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

11. Folly's father is the god of what?
(a) Riches.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Peace.
(d) War.

12. Whom does Folly praise?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Herself.
(c) The king.
(d) Rhetoricians.

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

14. Erasmus predicts that his book will be criticized as being what?
(a) Treacherous and rebellious.
(b) Immature and poorly written.
(c) Frivolous and sarcastic.
(d) Incomprehensible.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?

2. What does Folly say would be rampant without her?

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

4. How was Folly born?

5. Which wise man was driven to drink hemlock because of wisdom?

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