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

2. According to Erasmus, nothing is so trivial as treating what in a trivial manner?
(a) Serious subjects.
(b) The mundane.
(c) Trivialities.
(d) Jokes.

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

4. Folly is in poor repute even amongst whom?
(a) The learned.
(b) Madmen.
(c) The noblemen.
(d) The greatest fools.

5. Whom did the ancient sophists praise?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Trivialities.
(c) Gods and heroes.
(d) The learned.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Through ignorance, thoughtlessness, and forgetfulness, what effect does Folly have on man?

3. Who segregated passions from the wise man?

4. According to Folly, what is the seed and source of all deeds which win praise?

5. How did Folly begin life?

(see the answer key)

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