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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. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?
(a) Manto.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Medea.
(d) Circe.

2. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?
(a) Commits suicide.
(b) Ghismonda's father does not kill her lover.
(c) Joins a monastery.
(d) Kills her father.

3. Why does Julia lose her will to live?
(a) Pompey is unfaithful to her.
(b) Julius Caesar disowns her.
(c) She sees Pompey's bloody robes.
(d) Julius Caesar dies.

4. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Aggrippina.
(c) Triaria.
(d) Argia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?

2. What male author praises intellectual women?

3. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?

4. Who invents new forms of poetry?

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

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