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

2. Which insect does Folly consider happy for following its natural instincts?
(a) The butterfly.
(b) The grasshopper.
(c) The wasp.
(d) The bee.

3. Who or what does Folly say provides the gods with laughter, sport, and fun?
(a) Four-legged creatures.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Poor mortals.
(d) Legends.

4. Whom does Fortune favor?
(a) The injudicious and venturesome.
(b) The lazy and insipid.
(c) The cautious and wise.
(d) The slow and ambling.

5. Those born foolish are free from what?
(a) Prison.
(b) Jobs and occupations.
(c) Fears and pangs of conscience.
(d) Happiness and bliss.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Folly consider to be the only god who shows no partiality?

3. In creation, God forbade man to eat of which tree?

4. Unlike the goddess Diana, Folly does not demand what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Folly compare theologians to the apostles?

2. According to Folly, how did Christ show folly?

3. How does Folly relate to sin in the cases of Aaron, Saul, David, and Paul?

4. Where in the courts of kings does Folly say that she is evident?

5. How does Folly say that schoolmasters are indebted to her?

6. Why does Folly say that kings like to be around fools?

7. How does Folly differentiate between the two types of insanity?

8. How does Folly explain that humans amuse the gods?

9. According to Folly, which kind of authors are happy?

10. What examples does Folly give of the benevolent form of insanity?

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