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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 avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
(a) Menalippe.
(b) Hippolyta.
(c) Semiramis.
(d) Synoppe.

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

3. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?
(a) Queen Fredegunde.
(b) Queen Camilla.
(c) Queen Zenobia.
(d) Queen Artemisia.

4. Why is the idea that female children result from a deficiency in the womb irrational?
(a) Because women are not developed in the womb.
(b) This is not an irrational idea.
(c) Because females result from extravagance.
(d) Because God made women and men equally noble and virtuous.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?

2. Who is Clotar's mother?

3. Whose duty is to protect the rights of the innocent and prevent the wicked from abusing their power?

4. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

5. Who is a better painter than the men of her time?

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