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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which character represents "flattery given to another"?
(a) Kolakia.
(b) Folly.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Venus.
2. Who can speak the truth without giving offense, according to Folly?
(a) Rhetoricians.
(b) Kings.
(c) Fools.
(d) Philosophers.
3. Why are poets not as much in debt to Folly as schoolmasters are?
(a) There are fewer poets.
(b) Poets are a free race.
(c) Poets are more foolish.
(d) Poets do not live as long as schoolmasters.
4. Those born foolish are free from what?
(a) Fears and pangs of conscience.
(b) Happiness and bliss.
(c) Prison.
(d) Jobs and occupations.
5. What do men gain by hunting, in Folly's opinion?
(a) Masculinity.
(b) Meat.
(c) Degeneration.
(d) Maturity.
6. Folly believes that the happiest men use for their guide only whom?
(a) Nature.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Themselves.
7. What did Aaron, Saul, and David all point to as an excuse for their sins?
(a) Immaturity.
(b) Zeal.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Folly.
8. Because they are amusing, Folly claims that fools are the favorites of whom?
(a) Children.
(b) Animals.
(c) The gods.
(d) Kings.
9. Folly observes priests doing what with their duties?
(a) Embracing them wholeheartedly.
(b) Leaving them for another day.
(c) Delegating them to subordinates.
(d) Questioning them.
10. According to Folly, if a doctor is foolish, what soars higher?
(a) His mistakes.
(b) His reputation.
(c) His ego.
(d) His wisdom.
11. In creation, God forbade man to eat of which tree?
(a) The tree of love.
(b) The tree of knowledge.
(c) The tree of hate.
(d) The tree of folly.
12. Men seek from saints that which belongs to whom?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Folly.
(c) God.
(d) Wisdom.
13. Folly states that examples from what prove that flattery can be sincere?
(a) Animals.
(b) Literature.
(c) Children.
(d) Theologians.
14. To whom does God reveal the mystery of salvation, according to Folly?
(a) Lawyers and theologians.
(b) Rhetoricians, orators, and Stoics.
(c) Little children.
(d) The wise.
15. As Folly prepares to call on the Holy Scriptures for support, what does she wish to wear?
(a) A fool's cap.
(b) A monk's robe.
(c) A priest's stole.
(d) A theologian's garb.
Short Answer Questions
1. Folly says that God takes great pleasure in whom?
2. Which group of people is Folly doubtful about admitting to her fellowship?
3. The Stoics believed that nothing is as pitiable as what?
4. Folly believes that medicine and law are an aspect of what?
5. Folly states that man's mind is most susceptible to what?
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