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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Harsh words or war.
(b) Toil, old age, and sickness.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Youth, immaturity, and pain.

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

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

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

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

7. If someone could look down upon the life of man as Jove does, what does Folly say he would see?
(a) Many blessings.
(b) Great folly.
(c) Ease and comfort.
(d) Many disasters.

8. What first put the idea of The Praise of Folly into Erasmus's head?
(a) His friend's family name.
(b) A humorous event on his trip.
(c) A book he was reading.
(d) His dream.

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

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

11. What is the least deceptive mirror of the mind?
(a) Actions.
(b) Looks.
(c) Speech.
(d) Eyes.

12. What is the best name for those who are complete fools, but try to pass as wise men?
(a) Wisacres.
(b) Foolish-wise.
(c) Hypocrites.
(d) Frauds.

13. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?
(a) Melancholy and Wistfulness.
(b) Drunkenness and Ignorance.
(c) Drunkennes and Debauchery.
(d) Flattery and Innocence.

14. Who said, "Happy the states where either philosophers are kings or kings are philosophers"?
(a) Homer.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Lucian.

15. Folly states that not wanting more than your share of wisdom is a true sign of what?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Folly.
(d) Stupidity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Folly describe a wise man without emotions?

3. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?

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

5. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?

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