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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, II/52-II/60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Proba.
(c) Christine de Pizan.
(d) Nicostrata.

2. What male author praises intellectual women?
(a) Matheolus.
(b) Boccacio.
(c) Plato.
(d) Socrates.

3. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?
(a) Julia.
(b) Tertia Aemilia.
(c) Xanthippe.
(d) Countess of Coemen.

4. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?
(a) Leander.
(b) Sagurat.
(c) Jason.
(d) Bernabino.

5. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?
(a) Medea.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Manto.
(d) Circe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?

2. Why does Julia lose her will to live?

3. In what are women as faithful as men?

4. Who invents new forms of poetry?

5. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?

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