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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?
(a) They fall asleep.
(b) They become cheerful.
(c) They become mad.
(d) They start jeering.

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

4. Who segregated passions from the wise man?
(a) Socrates.
(b) The Sophists.
(c) The Stoics.
(d) The Epicureans.

5. Who is the father of Folly?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Plutus.
(d) Achilles.

6. To what does Folly recall the elderly?
(a) Middle Age.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Fantasies.
(d) Childhood.

7. Through ignorance, thoughtlessness, and forgetfulness, what effect does Folly have on man?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Shame and infamy.
(c) Reluctance to leave life.
(d) Desire to leave earth.

8. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) Madmen.
(b) The noblemen.
(c) The greatest fools.
(d) The learned.

9. Folly states that men create art because of a thirst for what?
(a) Money.
(b) Fame.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Independence.

10. How does Folly describe a wise man without emotions?
(a) A doormat.
(b) A monster.
(c) A puppet.
(d) An animal.

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

12. According to Folly, to whom does life owe its beginning?
(a) Pallas.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Folly.
(d) God.

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

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

15. Where was Folly born?
(a) The Islands of the Blest.
(b) A hollow cave.
(c) The Island of Troy.
(d) Wandering Delos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erasmus follows the well-known popular proverb that states that a man should do what?

2. Whom does Folly consider her sister?

3. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on what?

4. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?

5. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?

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