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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) Triaria.
(b) Aggrippina.
(c) Argia.
(d) Artemisia.

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

3. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?
(a) Ghismonda's father does not kill her lover.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Kills her father.
(d) Joins a monastery.

4. Who helps Jason acquire the Golden Fleece?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Medea.
(c) Circes.
(d) Manto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What male author praises intellectual women?

2. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?

3. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?

4. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?

5. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?

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