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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ghismonda take as a lover?
(a) Pyramus.
(b) Guiscardo.
(c) Leander.
(d) Jason.

2. Who bets that he can seduce Bernabo's wife?
(a) Decameron.
(b) Bernabo.
(c) Ambrose.
(d) Boccaccio.

3. What is the worst possible thing imaginable for chaste women?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Rape.
(c) Murder.
(d) Chastity.

4. Who honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Aggrippina.
(c) Argia.
(d) Triaria.

5. According to Rectitude, when will women attain perfection?
(a) When men do.
(b) Women are already perfect.
(c) Very soon.
(d) Never.

6. Who prays to the goddess Pessinus to witness her chastity and allow her to tow a ship to harbor with her belt?
(a) Busa.
(b) Juno.
(c) Europa.
(d) Claudia.

7. How does Marquis Saluzzo's wife react to his claim that he must kill their children to appease his barons?
(a) She does not complain.
(b) She runs away with her children.
(c) She cries hysterically.
(d) She kills him.

8. Who is renowned for her terrible misfortune?
(a) Europa.
(b) Juno.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Jocasta.

9. Who is so chaste in marriage and widowhood that she lives with her mother-in-law after her husband dies?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Ruth.

10. Who cares for Roman soldiers after their battle with Hannibal?
(a) Europa.
(b) Busa.
(c) Christine.
(d) Claudia.

11. 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) Xanthippe.
(c) Countess of Coemen.
(d) Tertia Aemilia.

12. Why does Marquis Saluzzo pretend to kill the children his wife bares him?
(a) He does not.
(b) As a practical joke.
(c) To test her constancy.
(d) Because he wants her to leave him.

13. Who convinces King Ahasuerus to rescind his order to kill all Jews?
(a) Queen Esther.
(b) Queen Antonia.
(c) Queen Judith.
(d) Queen Portia.

14. Who is beaten for her debate with the judge Urban?
(a) Eulalie.
(b) Martina.
(c) Justine.
(d) Theodosina.

15. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?
(a) While he is counting the ransom money.
(b) A Roman general never rapes King Ortiagon's wife.
(c) Never.
(d) When she escapes from his control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who hides and saves her husband, Quintus Lucretius, when he is sentenced to death for a crime?

2. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?

3. What does Rectitude claim is the main problem in educating women?

4. Who welcomes the citizens to the City of Ladies?

5. According to Rectitude in Section 2, Part 30, what can no man match?

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