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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is able to reverse people's emotions and exhort men to perform courageous feats?
2. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
3. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
4. Who tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?
5. What is Theodoric's mother's name?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who does Rectitude begin with when she dictates the order in which Christine must arrange the valuable stones, and why is this significant?
2. Why should Theodoric's honor for his victory in battle belong to his mother, Lilia?
3. How will the three ladies help Christine build the City of Ladies?
4. Once the buildings are finished, what does Rectitude tell Christine?
5. What does Reason tell Christine when Christine asks if women are capable of good judgment?
6. In Section 1, Parts 37-41, what inventions are listed, and who makes them?
7. When Christine asks if God gives women an aptitude for learning, how does Reason respond?
8. In Section 1, Parts 28-36, what allusions to Greek and Roman mythology does Reason make?
9. Name and describe two stories that Reason tells to dispute the claim that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermine moral qualities.
10. Compare and contrast Zenobia and Artemisia.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?
Essay Topic 2
What role do sexist attitudes play in "The Book of the City of Ladies"? What attitudes about gender are represented and by which characters?
Essay Topic 3
Explain the reason for building the City of Ladies.
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