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

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

3. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?
(a) Manto.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Proba.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Lisabetta of Messina hide Lorenzo's severed head?

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

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

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

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

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