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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. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?
(a) Malice and gossip.
(b) Dislike of women.
(c) Chastity and virtue.
(d) A natural delight in slander.

2. Who is able to reverse people's emotions and exhort men to perform courageous feats?
(a) Dido.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Elissa.
(d) Sempronia.

3. Who is Aeneas's wife and the mother of Julius Silvanus?
(a) Sempronia.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Dido.
(d) Opis.

4. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?
(a) Male authors.
(b) Female authors.
(c) Politicans.
(d) Religious leaders.

5. To Cato's claim that attractive women are like roses with thorns underneath, what does Reason say the thorns represent?
(a) Reason says there are no thorns in women's nature.
(b) Contrition and fear of doing wrong.
(c) Evil ways.
(d) Violent natures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why don't women participate in court?

2. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?

3. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?

4. Who tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?

5. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

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