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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, I/37-I/48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Hector of Troy.
(d) Achilles.

2. Who kills Queen Penthesila?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Hector of Troy.

3. Who defeats Xerxes when he attacks the Lacedaemoniana?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Camilla.
(c) Lilia.
(d) Zenobia.

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

5. Who marries Saturn and gives birth to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Opis.
(c) Sempronia.
(d) Dido.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Reason claim never criticized women more than men?

2. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?

3. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?

4. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?

5. Who creates silk and dyes it to create clothes?

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