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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By Stoic definition, what does folly mean?
(a) Moved by the passions.
(b) Without wisdom.
(c) Given to frivolity.
(d) Belonging to women.

2. What does Folly accuse of causing the bloom of youthful beauty to fade?
(a) Mature sense.
(b) Moral maturity.
(c) Folly.
(d) Old age.

3. How does Folly describe a wise man without emotions?
(a) An animal.
(b) A monster.
(c) A doormat.
(d) A puppet.

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

5. Folly states that not wanting more than your share of wisdom is a true sign of what?
(a) Stupidity.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Folly.

6. Why are women willing to repeat childbirth, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Maternal instinct.
(b) Forgetfulness.
(c) Desire to please her husband.
(d) Love.

7. Who said, "Happy the states where either philosophers are kings or kings are philosophers"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Lucian.
(c) Homer.
(d) Plato.

8. Erasmus says there is merit in being attacked by whom?
(a) Folly.
(b) The king.
(c) Erasmus.
(d) Ignorance.

9. Which poet wrote, "For ignorance provides the happiest life"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aquinas.
(c) Homer.
(d) Sophocles.

10. What is unknown in the place of Folly's birth?
(a) Gardens.
(b) Harsh words or war.
(c) Youth, immaturity, and pain.
(d) Toil, old age, and sickness.

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

12. Whom does Folly consider more foolish than men?
(a) Gods.
(b) Women.
(c) Nymphs.
(d) Animals.

13. Erasmus believes he is not writing sarcasm, but what instead?
(a) Criticism and dissent.
(b) Warning and advice.
(c) Innocent jokes.
(d) Allegorical interpretation.

14. What does Folly say everyone finds delightful about adolescence?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Energy.
(c) Folly.
(d) Life.

15. Who considers themselves gods on earth if they can use Greek words in their speeches?
(a) Rhetoricians.
(b) English.
(c) Professors.
(d) Sophists.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Folly recall the elderly?

2. What does Folly say that the stoics degrade in public?

3. In Folly's opinion, what develops prudence?

4. Who segregated passions from the wise man?

5. Erasmus follows the well-known popular proverb that states that a man should do what?

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