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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) Toil, old age, and sickness.
(b) Gardens.
(c) Harsh words or war.
(d) Youth, immaturity, and pain.

2. Which age in a man's life does Folly describe as the happiest?
(a) The first.
(b) The middle.
(c) The last.
(d) None.

3. Erasmus answers the charge that he is too sarcastic by saying that ________ has always enjoyed freedom to exercise their wit on the common life of man.
(a) The insane.
(b) Jesters.
(c) The intelligent.
(d) Noblemen.

4. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) Madmen.
(b) The learned.
(c) The greatest fools.
(d) The noblemen.

5. What does Folly state is necessary for friendship?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Reason.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Folly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

2. Erasmus anticipates that critics will clamor that he is reviving what?

3. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on what?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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