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

2. Who does mankind gain more from than was lost through Eve?
(a) Lady Rectitude.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Lady Reason.

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

4. Who prophesies about the wooden plank that comes from the tree which will be used to kill the man who will destroy the Jewish faith?
(a) Christine.
(b) The Queen of Sheba.
(c) Almathea.
(d) Erythrea.

5. Why does Christine wonder if marriage is unbearable?
(a) Because men are impossible to live with.
(b) Because women are impossible to live with.
(c) Because women are inconstant.
(d) Because men are inconstant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who prophesies that the King of Thuringia will receive a vision if he remains chaste on his wedding night?

2. Who devotedly loves King Mithradates despite the fact that he has many concubines?

3. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?

4. What does Hypsipyle do when rebels advance to kill her father, King Thaos?

5. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

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