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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 invents the science and techniques of agriculture?
(a) Medea.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Isis.
(d) Nicostrata.

2. Who creates the Latin alphabet?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Proba.
(c) Circes.
(d) Nicostrata.

3. Who is so well versed in the arts and sciences that even the bible speaks of her abilities?
(a) Empress Nicuala.
(b) Empress Hippolyta.
(c) Queen Zenobia.
(d) Queen Thamiris.

4. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Proba.
(c) Christine de Pizan.
(d) Sappho.

5. Who invents new forms of poetry?
(a) Proba.
(b) Manto.
(c) Cornifica.
(d) Sappho.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?

2. Who does Theseus beg to marry?

3. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?

4. Who has complete knowledge of pyromancy?

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

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