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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Those who take pride in their ancestry lead happy lives, thanks to whom?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Self-love.
(c) Forgetfulness.
(d) Pride.

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

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

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

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

7. Who, according to Folly, interpret the Holy Scripture to fit their own purposes?
(a) Kings.
(b) Children.
(c) Monks.
(d) Theologians.

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

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

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

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

12. Who comprises the happiest group of people, according to Folly?
(a) Idiots, fools, nitwits, and simpletons.
(b) The wise.
(c) The learned.
(d) Liars, cheats, robbers, and swindlers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Folly, who stretch the Holy Scriptures like a tanner with a hide?

2. Of the fools, who does Folly say handles the meanest sort of business by the meanest methods?

3. Making himself agreeable by flattery is a skill becoming to whom, according to Folly?

4. Which book of the Bible does Folly first quote as speaking on her behalf?

5. Which group of people is Folly doubtful about admitting to her fellowship?

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