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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character represents "flattery given to another"?
(a) Venus.
(b) Kolakia.
(c) Folly.
(d) Neptune.

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

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

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

6. What do some foolish men believe will purify them from a lifetime of sin?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) A sacrificed pig.
(c) Folly.
(d) A single coin.

7. Of the fools, who does Folly say handles the meanest sort of business by the meanest methods?
(a) Poets.
(b) Merchants.
(c) Rhetoricians.
(d) Doctors.

8. Because they are amusing, Folly claims that fools are the favorites of whom?
(a) Children.
(b) Animals.
(c) The gods.
(d) Kings.

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

10. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Learning.
(d) Praying.

11. Folly states that which group of people listens to the preaching of monks?
(a) The elderly and the poor.
(b) Merchants and women.
(c) Fools and children.
(d) Theologians and magicians.

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

13. Men seek from saints that which belongs to whom?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Folly.
(c) God.
(d) Wisdom.

14. Folly states that a single system of what provides continuous torture for life?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Latin.
(d) Grammar.

15. Which nation shows its self-love by claiming a monopoly on polite manners?
(a) Russia.
(b) Austria.
(c) Belgium.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Folly call unpopular, although they are happy because of their self-satisfaction?

2. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?

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

4. Who, according to Folly, interpret the Holy Scripture to fit their own purposes?

5. Which wise men of his day did Folly say that Christ attacked?

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