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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Homer.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aquinas.

2. Folly states that which group of people listens to the preaching of monks?
(a) Merchants and women.
(b) The elderly and the poor.
(c) Theologians and magicians.
(d) Fools and children.

3. According to Folly, if a doctor is foolish, what soars higher?
(a) His ego.
(b) His wisdom.
(c) His reputation.
(d) His mistakes.

4. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?
(a) Prudence.
(b) Nature.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Flattery.

5. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) God.
(b) Honor.
(c) His wife.
(d) Himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Folly describe the schools where schoolmasters teach?

3. Which god was given a name that means "foolish" in Greek?

4. Folly states that a man must be what in order to be a father?

5. Among the learned men, whom does Folly call the most self-satisfied?

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