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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 ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Argia.
(b) Triaria.
(c) Aggrippina.
(d) Artemisia.

2. Who invents new forms of poetry?
(a) Proba.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Manto.

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

4. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?
(a) Christine de Pizan.
(b) Proba.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Nicostrata.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

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

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

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

5. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?

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