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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34 - 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many statues does Folly have?
(a) As many as there are jesters.
(b) As many as there are men who wear her image.
(c) As many as there are stars in the sky.
(d) As many as there are fish.

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

3. What calmed a violent Roman mob?
(a) A speech.
(b) A storm.
(c) A fable.
(d) A comedy.

4. Because they are amusing, Folly claims that fools are the favorites of whom?
(a) The gods.
(b) Animals.
(c) Children.
(d) Kings.

5. Erasmus states that his praise of folly has not been altogether what?
(a) Foolish.
(b) Criticized.
(c) Welcomed.
(d) Wasted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Folly says that to be foolish is not to be miserable, but to be what?

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

3. Whom did Erasmus make the narrator of his book?

4. Folly considers emotions to be what in relation to wisdom?

5. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?

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