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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Folly recall the elderly?
(a) Middle Age.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Childhood.
(d) Fantasies.

2. Of the fools, who does Folly say handles the meanest sort of business by the meanest methods?
(a) Poets.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Rhetoricians.
(d) Merchants.

3. Whom does Folly hold responsible for introducing the branches of learning?
(a) Folly.
(b) Plato.
(c) Evil spirits.
(d) Flattery.

4. Folly says that popes would lose all advantages if they showed what?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Love.
(c) Compassion.
(d) Folly.

5. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?

2. Philosophers say that man can compensate for what nature has denied him by what?

3. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?

4. What does Folly say that priests battle for?

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

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