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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) Allows herself to be imprisoned to keep her mother company.
(b) Disowns her mother.
(c) Helps her mother escape.
(d) Visits daily and breastfeeds her mother.

2. Who is the first lady that speaks to Christine?
(a) Lady Rectitude.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Reason.
(d) Lady Justice.

3. Who receives high honors for saving her father when his enemies attack him during a triumphal procession in Rome?
(a) Griselda.
(b) Triaria.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Claudine.

4. Who marries the King of Palmyria?
(a) Zenobia.
(b) Lilia.
(c) Synoppe.
(d) Artemisia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who predicts the fall of Troy?

3. Who does mankind gain more from than was lost through Eve?

4. Who is Aeneas's wife and the mother of Julius Silvanus?

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

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