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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 predicts that Justinian will become emperor?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Nicostrata.
(d) Cassandra.

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

3. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?
(a) Irene.
(b) Thamaris.
(c) Arachne.
(d) Pamphile.

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

5. Who devotedly loves King Mithradates despite the fact that he has many concubines?
(a) Queen Claudine.
(b) Queen Drypetina.
(c) Queen Hypsicratea.
(d) Queen Dido.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who fights Vespasian at her husband's side?

2. Who predicts the fall of Troy?

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

4. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?

5. Why is the idea that female children result from a deficiency in the womb irrational?

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