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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Folly say makes men satisfied with themselves?
(a) Deception.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Self-love.
(d) Madness.

2. 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.

3. Folly states that a single system of what provides continuous torture for life?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Grammar.
(d) Latin.

4. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?
(a) Deception.
(b) Force.
(c) Madness.
(d) Love.

5. Which god was given a name that means "foolish" in Greek?
(a) Venus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Bacchus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The people of which age lived happily without science or learning?

2. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?

3. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?

4. Whom does Folly consider happier than Odysseus (also known as Ulysses)?

5. Who or what does Folly say provides the gods with laughter, sport, and fun?

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