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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 is better than good judgment because it can benefit mankind for all of eternity?
(a) Learning.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Virtue.
(d) Chastity.

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

3. 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.

4. Who does Theseus beg to marry?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Menalippe.
(c) Thamiris.
(d) Hippolyta.

5. Who restores Metabus' throne?
(a) His daughter, Camilla.
(b) His daughter, Zenobia.
(c) His wife, Zenobia.
(d) His wife, Camilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will bring the queen and princesses to the City of Ladies?

2. What does the woman whose mother is imprisoned and sentenced to starvation do to help her mother?

3. Who disputes the idea that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermines moral qualities?

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

5. Who receives high honors for saving her father when his enemies attack him during a triumphal procession in Rome?

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