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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 disputes the idea that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermines moral qualities?
(a) Lady Rectitude.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Lady Reason.

2. 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) Religious leaders.
(b) Female authors.
(c) Male authors.
(d) Politicans.

3. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?
(a) Matheolus.
(b) Plato.
(c) Boccacio.
(d) Sappho.

4. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?
(a) Greeks.
(b) Latins.
(c) Amazons.
(d) Hippolytans.

5. Who does Theseus beg to marry?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Thamiris.
(c) Menalippe.
(d) Hippolyta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the idea that female children result from a deficiency in the womb irrational?

2. Who makes women perfect in mind and body?

3. Whose duty is to judge and repay everyone according to their just deserts?

4. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?

5. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

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