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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly dresses in unaccustomed garb because she is imitating whom?
(a) Lucian.
(b) The Sophists.
(c) Homer.
(d) Monks.

2. What is the best name for those who are complete fools, but try to pass as wise men?
(a) Wisacres.
(b) Hypocrites.
(c) Frauds.
(d) Foolish-wise.

3. Which of the following does Erasmus name as a famous author who wrote frivolity?
(a) Virgil.
(b) Defoe.
(c) Chaucer.
(d) Augustine.

4. In criticizing the men of his day, whom does Erasmus name?
(a) Several political leaders.
(b) No one.
(c) The pope.
(d) Thomas More.

5. What grows in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) The gardens of Adonis.
(b) Onions.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) The tree of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Folly praise?

2. 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.

3. What first put the idea of The Praise of Folly into Erasmus's head?

4. Folly's father is the god of what?

5. Who considers themselves gods on earth if they can use Greek words in their speeches?

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