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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 13, II/61-II/69.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hypsipyle do when rebels advance to kill her father, King Thaos?
(a) Runs away to a monastery.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Turns him over to the rebels.
(d) Hides him in a trunk.

2. When Veturia begs her son to make peace, what does he tell her she should do instead of begging him?
(a) Never speak to him again.
(b) Stop listening to other people.
(c) Command him.
(d) Leave him alone.

3. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?
(a) Grisela.
(b) Medea.
(c) Queen Dido of Carthage.
(d) Thisbe.

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

5. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Argia.
(c) Aggrippina.
(d) Triaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of citizens will Rectitude and Christine fill the City of Ladies with?

2. Who are the three Jewish women to whom God grants the gift of prophecy?

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

4. What does Pyramus do when he find Thisbe's veil which was eaten and vomited by a lion?

5. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?

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