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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(b) Toil, old age, and sickness.
(c) Gardens.
(d) Harsh words or war.

2. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Energy.
(c) Life.
(d) Folly.

3. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?
(a) The learned.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Gods and heroes.

4. In which year did Erasmus date his Prefatory Letter?
(a) 1500.
(b) 1550.
(c) 1508.
(d) 1598.

5. How did Folly begin life?
(a) Deviously.
(b) Smiling sweetly.
(c) Crying.
(d) Running and jumping.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Folly recall the elderly?

2. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?

3. Erasmus says he wants to survey the ridiculous rather than the what?

4. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on his journey to England from where?

5. What happens when Folly begins addressing the crowd?

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