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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6, II/1-II/6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does the King of Palmyria and his wife subjugate?
(a) Amazonia.
(b) Mesopotamia.
(c) Greece.
(d) Italy.

2. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?
(a) Because they fear the Amazons.
(b) There is peace between the Greeks and the Amazons.
(c) The Amazons invade the Greeks.
(d) Because they want wives.

3. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?
(a) Matheolus.
(b) Boccacio.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sappho.

4. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?
(a) Female authors.
(b) Male authors.
(c) Politicans.
(d) Religious leaders.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What male author praises intellectual women?

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

3. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

4. Who is honored by Roman newlywed wives' desire to emulate her?

5. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?

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