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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 honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?
(a) Aggrippina.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Triaria.
(d) Argia.

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

3. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?
(a) Isis.
(b) Medea.
(c) Ceres.
(d) Minerva.

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

5. In what are women as faithful as men?
(a) In learning.
(b) In love.
(c) In friendship.
(d) In familial ties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pyramus do when he find Thisbe's veil which was eaten and vomited by a lion?

2. Which of Boccaccio's writings does Rectitude allude to in Section 2, Part 52?

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

4. Who invents new forms of poetry?

5. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?

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