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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. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?
(a) Trivialities.
(b) The learned.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Gods and heroes.

2. Who is the father of Folly?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Plutus.
(d) Zeus.

3. According to Folly, who shows the way to perfect wisdom?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Folly.

4. How was Folly born?
(a) Her father made her spring from his brain.
(b) Her father married her mother.
(c) She does not know.
(d) Her father laid with a nymph.

5. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?
(a) Serious subjects.
(b) Jokes.
(c) Trivialities.
(d) The mundane.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?

2. What must one do to be considered a god, according to Folly?

3. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?

4. Folly states that men create art because of a thirst for what?

5. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Folly describe her parentage?

2. Does Folly speak highly of prudence?

3. Why did Erasmus dedicate his book to Thomas More?

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

5. How does Folly explain that Self-love is related to her?

6. Why does Folly say that she is necessary for war?

7. How long did Folly say she spent writing her speech?

8. Why is Folly dressed in unaccustomed garb?

9. In his Prefatory Letter, did Erasmus admit he wrote Praise of Folly with sarcasm?

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

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