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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. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?
(a) Because Pyramus leaves her for Thisbe.
(b) Because her father dies.
(c) Because Jason breaks his promise to marry her.
(d) Because Leander commits suicide.

2. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?
(a) Commits suicide.
(b) Joins him in exile.
(c) Marries someone else.
(d) Hides him in a trunk.

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

4. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?
(a) Paulina.
(b) Aemilia.
(c) Sulpicia.
(d) Xanthippe.

5. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?
(a) Pompeia Paulina.
(b) Tertia Aemilia.
(c) Sulpicia.
(d) Queen Hypsicratea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the magnificent sepulcher built in King Mausolus's honor become known as?

2. Who creates the Latin alphabet?

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

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

5. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?

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