The Book of the City of Ladies Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Book of the City of Ladies Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who loves Queen Blanche of France for life despite the impossibility of having his love returned?
(a) King Aucejas.
(b) King Guiscardo.
(c) King Saint Louis.
(d) King Lorenzo.

2. What often assists in moral thinking, according to Rectitude?
(a) Being male.
(b) Religion.
(c) Relationships with men.
(d) Education.

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

4. According to Rectitude, how do women compare to men in terms of avariciousness?
(a) Women are more avaricious than men.
(b) Women are less avaricious than men.
(c) Women are equally as avaricious as men.
(d) Neither women nor men are avaricious.

5. Who throws herself overboard to avoid being raped when she is kidnapped?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Hippo.
(d) Florence.

6. How is Saint Lucy punished for her faith?
(a) She is beheaded.
(b) She is sent to a brothel to be raped.
(c) She is imprisoned and starved.
(d) She is not punished for her faith.

7. Where does Lisabetta of Messina hide Lorenzo's severed head?
(a) In her closet.
(b) In her garden.
(c) She cannot find Lorenzo's head.
(d) In a pot of basil.

8. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?
(a) Lady Justice.
(b) Christine.
(c) Lady Reason.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

9. Who refuses Pharaoh's advances?
(a) Mariamme.
(b) Clotilde.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Penelope.

10. Who is worshiped by the Romans as the goddess of wealth and marriage?
(a) Dido.
(b) Juno.
(c) Europa.
(d) Jocasta.

11. Who commits suicide after Tarquin the Proud rapes her?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Hippo.
(c) Lucretia.
(d) Florence.

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

13. Who pleads with King Clovis to accept God?
(a) Clotilde.
(b) Hortensia.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Susanna.

14. Who does Rectitude cite as an example of a discreet woman?
(a) Judith.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Curia.
(d) Portia.

15. Who lives a chaste widowhood after Emperor Nero kills her husband, Drusus Tiberius?
(a) Griselda.
(b) Hippo.
(c) Lucretia.
(d) Antonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bets that he can seduce Bernabo's wife?

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

3. What happens when the emperor tries to force the blessed virgin Martina to worship his idols?

4. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?

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

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