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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which animal does Folly pity for being made to work with men?
(a) The horse.
(b) The ox.
(c) The dog.
(d) The donkey.

4. When did Christ first make himself a fool, in Folly's opinion?
(a) His adulthood.
(b) His incarnation.
(c) His death.
(d) His childhood.

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

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

7. Which god claims to free the mind from care?
(a) Cupid.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Salinus.
(d) Bacchus.

8. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?
(a) Folly.
(b) Plato.
(c) Flattery.
(d) Evil spirits.

9. According to Folly, man's happiness depends not upon facts, but upon what?
(a) His possessions.
(b) His money.
(c) His opinions.
(d) His friends.

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

11. Which book of the Bible does Folly first quote as speaking on her behalf?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Ecclesiastes.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Romans.

12. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?
(a) The Middle Ages.
(b) The Age of Innocence.
(c) The Bronze Age.
(d) The Golden Age.

13. Whom does Folly consider happier than Odysseus (also known as Ulysses)?
(a) Gryllus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Zeus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which nation shows its self-love by claiming a monopoly on polite manners?

2. In Folly's opinion, no one would be induced to take on the duties of a king without what?

3. In the Holy Scriptures, which man says "I speak as a fool, I am more"?

4. Why are poets not as much in debt to Folly as schoolmasters are?

5. 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."

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