The Praise of Folly Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Praise of Folly Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly says that God takes great pleasure in whom?
(a) His apostles only.
(b) The wise.
(c) Fools.
(d) A select few.

2. What do men gain by hunting, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Maturity.
(b) Meat.
(c) Masculinity.
(d) Degeneration.

3. Which wise men of his day did Folly say that Christ attacked?
(a) Rabbis.
(b) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(c) Pharisees, scribes, and teachers of the Law.
(d) Schoolmasters.

4. Why are poets not as much in debt to Folly as schoolmasters are?
(a) There are fewer poets.
(b) Poets are a free race.
(c) Poets are more foolish.
(d) Poets do not live as long as schoolmasters.

5. What do all artists have, according to Folly?
(a) Fame.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Wisdom.

6. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?
(a) A king.
(b) A schoolmaster.
(c) A courtier.
(d) A monk.

7. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?
(a) Hands.
(b) Lives.
(c) Minds.
(d) Tongues.

8. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?
(a) Leaving them for another day.
(b) Questioning them.
(c) Embracing them wholeheartedly.
(d) Delegating them to subordinates.

9. In Folly's opinion, no one would be induced to take on the duties of a king without what?
(a) Chivalry.
(b) A noble heart.
(c) Folly.
(d) Honor.

10. What is Folly's temple?
(a) The minds of men.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The sky.
(d) The whole world.

11. Those born foolish are free from what?
(a) Jobs and occupations.
(b) Prison.
(c) Fears and pangs of conscience.
(d) Happiness and bliss.

12. Whom does Folly quote as an authority who praises her by saying, "The world is full of fools"?
(a) Paul the Apostle.
(b) More.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Euripides .

13. As Folly prepares to call on the Holy Scriptures for support, what does she wish to wear?
(a) A theologian's garb.
(b) A priest's stole.
(c) A monk's robe.
(d) A fool's cap.

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

15. In creation, God forbade man to eat of which tree?
(a) The tree of love.
(b) The tree of folly.
(c) The tree of hate.
(d) The tree of knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Folly, man's happiness depends not upon facts, but upon what?

2. Folly states that man's mind is most susceptible to what?

3. Who protested when his friends rescued him from delusion?

4. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?

5. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?

(see the answer keys)

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