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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, I/28-I/36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?
(a) Queen Fredegunde.
(b) Queen Zenobia.
(c) Queen Artemisia.
(d) Queen Camilla.

2. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?
(a) Cornifica.
(b) Medea.
(c) Proba.
(d) Sappho.

3. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?
(a) Circe.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Medea.
(d) Manto.

4. Who makes women perfect in mind and body?
(a) Women are not perfect in mind and body.
(b) Nature.
(c) Satan.
(d) God.

5. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
(a) Hippolyta.
(b) Synoppe.
(c) Semiramis.
(d) Menalippe.

Short Answer Questions

1. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?

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

3. Why does Christine think herself unfortunate?

4. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

5. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?

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