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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 mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) Lady Rectitude.
(c) Christine.
(d) Lady Justice.

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

3. Who bets that he can seduce Bernabo's wife?
(a) Boccaccio.
(b) Ambrose.
(c) Decameron.
(d) Bernabo.

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

5. Which of Boccaccio's writings does Rectitude allude to in Section 2, Part 52?
(a) Women.
(b) Matheolus.
(c) Decameron.
(d) Fear and Loathing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?

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

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

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

5. Who honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?

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