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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?
(a) Serious prose.
(b) Music.
(c) Pedantic poetry.
(d) Honorific titles.

2. What does Folly state is necessary for a woman to agree to wedlock?
(a) Madness.
(b) Force.
(c) Deception.
(d) Love.

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

4. According to Folly, what is the seed and source of all deeds which win praise?
(a) Vanity.
(b) Anger.
(c) Poverty.
(d) War.

5. What does Zeus have to put aside in order to make a child?
(a) His divinity and anger.
(b) His previous wife.
(c) His cloak and dagger.
(d) His thunderbolt and grimness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What calmed a violent Roman mob?

2. Where was Folly born?

3. Which two nymphs nursed Folly?

4. Erasmus states that his praise of folly has not been altogether what?

5. How does Folly describe a wise man without emotions?

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