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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erasmus states that jokes can be handled in such a way that a reader finds more reward in them than in a what?
(a) A play.
(b) A riddle.
(c) An argument.
(d) A treatise.

2. Folly's father is the god of what?
(a) War.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Peace.
(d) Riches.

3. What does Erasmus request the recipient of his book to be?
(a) A persecutor of Folly.
(b) A dedicated follower of Folly.
(c) A stout champion to Folly.
(d) An editor of his book.

4. Whom does Folly praise?
(a) The king.
(b) Rhetoricians.
(c) Herself.
(d) Erasmus.

5. Erasmus remembers that someone wrote the last will and testament of the piglet Grunnius Corocotta, as mentioned by whom?
(a) Ovid.
(b) St. Jerome.
(c) The Apostle Paul.
(d) Homer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?

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

4. Erasmus says there is merit in being attacked by whom?

5. Folly is the true bestower of what?

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