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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who marries Saturn and gives birth to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto?
(a) Opis.
(b) Dido.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Sempronia.

2. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?
(a) Medea.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Isis.
(d) Minerva.

3. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Hector of Troy.
(d) Achilles.

4. Who prophesies that the King of Thuringia will receive a vision if he remains chaste on his wedding night?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) Anna.
(c) Deborah.
(d) Queen Basine.

5. Who will bring the queen and princesses to the City of Ladies?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Rectitude.
(c) Lady Reason.
(d) Lady Justice.

6. Whose duty is to judge and repay everyone according to their just deserts?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Justice.

7. Who invents new forms of poetry?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Manto.
(d) Proba.

8. Who conquers Ethiopia and India?
(a) Hippolyta.
(b) Caria.
(c) Synoppe.
(d) Semiramis.

9. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?
(a) Manto.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Proba.

10. Who predicts the fall of Troy?
(a) Queen Basine.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Nicostrata.
(d) Cassandra.

11. Why have the daughters of God been sent to Earth?
(a) To restore order and justice.
(b) To take Christine to heaven.
(c) To punish the wicked.
(d) The three ladies are not the daughters of God.

12. Who predicts that Justinian will become emperor?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Nicostrata.

13. Who follows King Mithradates into battle rather than reveling in luxury in her own land?
(a) Queen Hypicratea of Amazonia.
(b) Queen Griselda of France.
(c) Queen Claudine of Rome.
(d) Queen Drypetina of Laodicea.

14. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?
(a) Medea.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Proba.
(d) Cornifica.

15. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?
(a) Latins.
(b) Amazons.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Hippolytans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which queen is responsible for capturing and killing King Cyrus when he attempts to attack the Amazons?

2. After the three ladies appear, why does the first lady chide Christine for believing books?

3. Who prophesies that Rome will be built on Mount Palatine?

4. Who are the three Jewish women to whom God grants the gift of prophecy?

5. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?

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