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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. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?
(a) Sempronia.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Carilla.
(d) Elissa.

2. Who prays to the goddess Pessinus to witness her chastity and allow her to tow a ship to harbor with her belt?
(a) Europa.
(b) Busa.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Juno.

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

4. Why don't women participate in court?
(a) Because court goes against women's natural modesty.
(b) Because women are not moral enough.
(c) Because women are intimidated by criminals.
(d) Because women are not intelligent enough.

5. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?
(a) Kills Nero.
(b) Refuses to betray the conspirators.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Reveals the conspirators.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invents new forms of poetry?

2. What male author praises intellectual women?

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

4. Who does God favor with twins despite the fact that she is old and infertile?

5. Who loves Queen Blanche of France for life despite the impossibility of having his love returned?

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