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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?
(a) They become cheerful.
(b) They start jeering.
(c) They fall asleep.
(d) They become mad.

2. Where was Folly born?
(a) The Islands of the Blest.
(b) The Island of Troy.
(c) Wandering Delos.
(d) A hollow cave.

3. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His divinity and anger.
(b) His cloak and dagger.
(c) His thunderbolt and grimness.
(d) His previous wife.

4. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Homer.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aquinas.
(d) Plato.

5. Folly states that men create art because of a thirst for what?
(a) Independence.
(b) Fame.
(c) Money.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

2. To what does Folly recall the elderly?

3. What does Folly say that babies have that rewards those who look after them?

4. Folly states that not wanting more than your share of wisdom is a true sign of what?

5. Whom does Folly consider her sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Folly say was her effect upon her audience?

2. Why did Erasmus consider it unjust not to allow relaxations to those in the academic world?

3. Does Folly have a good opinion of the children of wise men?

4. How does Folly describe her reputation?

5. According to Folly, do philosophers make good kings?

6. Does Folly agree with those who say that it is conceited to praise one's self?

7. Are women more or less foolish than men, according to Folly?

8. Did Erasmus consider The Praise of Folly too frivolous for a theologian?

9. Why does Folly claim to be a god?

10. How does Folly describe her parentage?

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