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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was Folly born?
(a) Her father married her mother.
(b) Her father made her spring from his brain.
(c) She does not know.
(d) Her father laid with a nymph.

3. 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.

4. How does Folly claim she is delivering her speech?
(a) With intentionality and serious thought.
(b) Extempore, or unprepared.
(c) With great emotion.
(d) Quickly.

5. 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.
(a) The intelligent.
(b) Jesters.
(c) The insane.
(d) Noblemen.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Erasmus marvels that present-day ears can bear to hear only what?

4. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?

5. Where was Folly born?

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