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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which group of people is Folly doubtful about admitting to her fellowship?
(a) Thieves.
(b) Jesters.
(c) Troubadours.
(d) Gamblers.

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

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

4. Folly states that Christ's disciples were told not to use what in defending themselves?
(a) Foolishness.
(b) Their own intelligence.
(c) God's wisdom.
(d) Witty answers.

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

6. How does Folly describe the schools where schoolmasters teach?
(a) Storehouses of knowledge.
(b) Treadmills and torture chambers.
(c) Quiet places of study.
(d) Citadels of wisdom.

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

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

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

10. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?
(a) Neglected.
(b) Divine.
(c) Wise.
(d) Human.

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

12. Whom does Folly consider to be the only god who shows no partiality?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Vernus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Folly.

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

14. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?
(a) Animals.
(b) Theologians.
(c) Literature.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many statues does Folly have?

2. Whom does Folly describe as "thrifty, impoverished, miserable, grumpy, harsh and unjust to himself, disagreeable and prematurely white-haired and senile . . ."?

3. Folly states that which group of people listens to the preaching of monks?

4. Who are under the protection of the gods and Folly?

5. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?

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