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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?

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?

4. Where does Lisabetta of Messina hide Lorenzo's severed head?

5. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

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