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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9, II/25-II/33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?
(a) Elissa.
(b) Sempronia.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Carilla.

2. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?
(a) Arachne.
(b) Pamphile.
(c) Thamaris.
(d) Irene.

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

4. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?
(a) Curia.
(b) Judith.
(c) Esther.
(d) Antonia.

5. Who falls out of favor with Emperor Justinian but regains favor by following his wife's advice?
(a) Belisarius.
(b) Julius Caesar.
(c) Justin.
(d) Holofernes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine suggest women are unable to do in Section 2, Part 25?

2. Who are the first Amazons to attack the invading Greeks?

3. Why does Christine wonder if marriage is unbearable?

4. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?

5. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?

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