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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Folly say that priests battle for?
(a) The souls of their flock.
(b) Their tithes.
(c) Folly.
(d) Their theology.

2. About whom is Folly speaking in the following: "They pay high tribute to folly in believing that what can't be refuted by argument can often be parried by laughter."
(a) Kings.
(b) Rhetoricians.
(c) Merchants.
(d) Popes.

3. Folly states that man's mind is most susceptible to what?
(a) Reality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Facts.
(d) Falsehoods.

4. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?
(a) Love.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Folly.
(d) Wisdom.

5. Among the learned men, whom does Folly call the most self-satisfied?
(a) Schoolmasters.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Merchants.

6. The Stoics believed that nothing is as pitiable as what?
(a) Insanity.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Grief.
(d) Religious devotion.

7. How many statues does Folly have?
(a) As many as there are jesters.
(b) As many as there are stars in the sky.
(c) As many as there are men who wear her image.
(d) As many as there are fish.

8. Whom does Folly describe as "thrifty, impoverished, miserable, grumpy, harsh and unjust to himself, disagreeable and prematurely white-haired and senile . . ."?
(a) The aged man.
(b) The fool.
(c) The idiot.
(d) The wise man.

9. What did Aaron, Saul, and David all point to as an excuse for their sins?
(a) Zeal.
(b) Folly.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Immaturity.

10. To whom, according to Folly, did Christ unfailingly preach folly?
(a) Prisoners.
(b) His apostles.
(c) Wise men.
(d) Sophists.

11. Who can speak the truth without giving offense, according to Folly?
(a) Kings.
(b) Rhetoricians.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Fools.

12. Which group of learned men does Folly mock for cloaking and bearding themselves to command respect?
(a) Poets.
(b) Monks.
(c) Fools.
(d) Philosophers.

13. To whom does God reveal the mystery of salvation, according to Folly?
(a) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(b) The wise.
(c) Little children.
(d) Lawyers and theologians.

14. Who does Folly call unpopular, although they are happy because of their self-satisfaction?
(a) Monks.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

15. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Nature.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which god claims to free the mind from care?

2. Folly says that God takes great pleasure in whom?

3. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?

4. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?

5. Who, according to Folly, believes they support the church by their syllogisms, and without them it would fall?

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