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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18 - 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Folly states that a man must love whom in order to love anyone?
(a) God.
(b) His wife.
(c) Himself.
(d) Honor.

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

3. Which god claims to free the mind from care?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Bacchus.
(c) Salinus.
(d) Cupid.

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

5. Which group of people is Folly doubtful about admitting to her fellowship?
(a) Gamblers.
(b) Troubadours.
(c) Thieves.
(d) Jesters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Folly consider to be the only god who shows no partiality?

3. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?

4. Which soldier was "as cowardly in battle as he was skilled in speech-making"?

5. Whom does Folly consider her sister?

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