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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 does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?
(a) Sophistry.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Friendship.

2. According to the Prefatory Letter, Erasmus wrote The Praise of Folly on what?
(a) Horseback.
(b) A boat.
(c) A stagecoach.
(d) A carriage.

3. What is the least deceptive mirror of the mind?
(a) Eyes.
(b) Looks.
(c) Actions.
(d) Speech.

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

5. According to Folly, to whom does life owe its beginning?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Folly.
(c) Pallas.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Erasmus request the recipient of his book to be?

2. What is the Greek word for "folly"?

3. Erasmus states that anyone who believes himself injured by Praise of Folly betrays what?

4. Who are the two gods in Folly's household?

5. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?

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