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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7, II/7-II/15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman whose mother is imprisoned and sentenced to starvation do to help her mother?
(a) Visits daily and breastfeeds her mother.
(b) Allows herself to be imprisoned to keep her mother company.
(c) Helps her mother escape.
(d) Disowns her mother.

2. What does Rectitude claim few wives are?
(a) Unreasonable and willful.
(b) Hateful and vicious.
(c) Spiteful and angry.
(d) Kind and generous.

3. Whose duty is to protect the rights of the innocent and prevent the wicked from abusing their power?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) Lady Rectitude.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Lady Justice.

4. Who predicts the fall of Troy?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Queen Basine.
(d) Elizabeth.

5. Whose gift of prophecy causes some to claim that Phoebus loves her?
(a) Erythrea.
(b) Almathea.
(c) Elissa.
(d) Medea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Theodoric's mother's name?

3. Who invents new forms of poetry?

4. What kind of citizens will Rectitude and Christine fill the City of Ladies with?

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

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