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

2. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?
(a) By appealing to the court system.
(b) By stealing the jail key and releasing them.
(c) By visiting and trading clothes which allows their husbands to escape.
(d) The Lacedaemonian wives do not help their husbands escape from prison.

3. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Triaria.
(c) Argia.
(d) Aggrippina.

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

5. Who has complete knowledge of pyromancy?
(a) Proba.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Medea.
(d) Manto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?

2. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?

3. Who does Christine praise in Section 2, Part 20?

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

5. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?

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