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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 is Folly's temple?
(a) The minds of men.
(b) The whole world.
(c) The sky.
(d) The ocean.
2. Who or what does Folly say provides the gods with laughter, sport, and fun?
(a) Poor mortals.
(b) Four-legged creatures.
(c) Legends.
(d) Themselves.
3. What do some foolish men believe will purify them from a lifetime of sin?
(a) A sacrificed pig.
(b) Folly.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) A single coin.
4. When did Christ first make himself a fool, in Folly's opinion?
(a) His adulthood.
(b) His incarnation.
(c) His childhood.
(d) His death.
5. Euripides says that the wise man has two what?
(a) Tongues.
(b) Hands.
(c) Lives.
(d) Minds.
Short Answer Questions
1. Folly states that man's mind is most susceptible to what?
2. To whom does God reveal the mystery of salvation, according to Folly?
3. Folly argues that she alone can make sin what?
4. Which group of learned men does Folly mock for cloaking and bearding themselves to command respect?
5. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Folly explain that humans amuse the gods?
2. Before using the Scriptures, which authorities does Folly cite as supporting her?
3. What are naturally-born fools and idiots free from, according to Folly?
4. Where in the courts of kings does Folly say that she is evident?
5. How does Folly respond to the argument that foolishness is an unhappy state?
6. How does Folly compare theologians to the apostles?
7. How does Folly say that schoolmasters are indebted to her?
8. What example does Folly take from the animal kingdom to prove her point that the most foolish are the happiest?
9. According to Folly, which legendary age produced the happiest people, and why?
10. According to Folly, how did Christ show folly?
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