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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Folly, members of the church hierarchy leave everything to devote themselves to what?
(a) God.
(b) War.
(c) Debates.
(d) Games.

3. Whom does Folly describe as "thrifty, impoverished, miserable, grumpy, harsh and unjust to himself, disagreeable and prematurely white-haired and senile . . ."?
(a) The fool.
(b) The aged man.
(c) The idiot.
(d) The wise man.

4. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Love.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Folly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. According to Folly, who despises money?
(a) The wise man.
(b) The fool.
(c) The greedy.
(d) The merchant.

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

13. Who protested when his friends rescued him from delusion?
(a) Homer's Odysseus.
(b) Barnabas.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Horace's Argive.

14. Folly argues that she alone can make sin what?
(a) Pardonable.
(b) Enviable.
(c) Humorous.
(d) Tempting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who, according to Folly, believes they support the church by their syllogisms, and without them it would fall?

2. Folly states that Christ compared himself with which foolish animal?

3. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?

4. According to Folly, if a doctor is foolish, what soars higher?

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

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