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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 tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?
(a) Lilia.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Cloelia.
(d) Fredegunde.

2. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
(a) Hector of Troy.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Aeneas.

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

4. Whose duty is to judge and repay everyone according to their just deserts?
(a) Lady Justice.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

5. What male author praises intellectual women?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Matheolus.
(c) Boccacio.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?

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

4. Whose duty is to protect the rights of the innocent and prevent the wicked from abusing their power?

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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