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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Folly, who shows the way to perfect wisdom?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Folly.
(d) Flattery.

3. In Folly's opinion, what develops prudence?
(a) Experience.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Hope.
(d) Wisdom.

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

5. What does Folly state is necessary for friendship?
(a) Reason.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Folly.
(d) Honesty.

6. Who considers themselves gods on earth if they can use Greek words in their speeches?
(a) Rhetoricians.
(b) Sophists.
(c) Professors.
(d) English.

7. What must one do to be considered a god, according to Folly?
(a) Be immortal.
(b) Be born of a god.
(c) Help mortals.
(d) Have divine powers.

8. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?
(a) Wise and learned.
(b) Handsome and charming.
(c) Foolish and fond.
(d) Gentle and generous.

9. According to Folly, who would be disagreeable and disliked if not graced by her divine powers?
(a) The Sophists.
(b) The gods.
(c) The nobility.
(d) The Stoics.

10. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Defoe.
(d) Augustine.

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

12. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?
(a) The first.
(b) The middle.
(c) The last.
(d) None.

13. Who speaks at the beginning of The Praise of Folly?
(a) Homer.
(b) More.
(c) Praise.
(d) Folly.

14. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?
(a) Pedantic poetry.
(b) Serious prose.
(c) Music.
(d) Honorific titles.

15. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?
(a) Monks.
(b) The Sophists.
(c) Lucian.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "Happy the states where either philosophers are kings or kings are philosophers"?

2. Which nymph among Folly's aids claps her hands, with laughter in her eyes?

3. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?

4. Where was Folly born?

5. Orators prepare long speeches to do what Folly does with her what?

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