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

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

3. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?
(a) Theologians.
(b) Children.
(c) Literature.
(d) Animals.

4. To whom, according to Folly, did Christ unfailingly preach folly?
(a) Sophists.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Wise men.
(d) His apostles.

5. Whom does Folly consider happier than Odysseus (also known as Ulysses)?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Gryllus.
(d) Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Folly call unpopular, although they are happy because of their self-satisfaction?

2. When did Christ first make himself a fool, in Folly's opinion?

3. Which character represents "flattery given to another"?

4. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?

5. Who does Folly say refutes pagan philosophers by their way of life rather than syllogisms?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Folly state that monks are foolish?

2. After comparing herself to Bacchus, in what ways does Folly consider herself superior to the other gods?

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

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

5. According to Folly, who was happier: Gryllus or Odysseus? Why?

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

7. Explain the communal form of Self-love, which Folly claims Nature has implanted.

8. While interpreting Paul's words, "I speak as a fool, I am more," Folly digresses to speak about what?

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

10. How does Folly argue that flattery is not incompatible with sincerity?

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