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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3, I/19-I/27.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who defeats Xerxes when he attacks the Lacedaemoniana?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Lilia.
(c) Camilla.
(d) Zenobia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is so well versed in the arts and sciences that even the bible speaks of her abilities?

2. After the three ladies appear, why does the first lady chide Christine for believing books?

3. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?

4. Why don't women participate in court?

5. Who are the first Amazons to attack the invading Greeks?

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