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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 kind of citizens will Rectitude and Christine fill the City of Ladies with?
(a) Chaste women.
(b) Virtuous and honorable citizens.
(c) Immoral men and women.
(d) Men of various social classes.

2. Who tells the Greeks of their upcoming struggles and battles?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Erythrea.
(c) Almathea.
(d) Opis.

3. Who is a better painter than the men of her time?
(a) Marcia.
(b) Arachne.
(c) Thamaris.
(d) Pamphile.

4. Who is Irene's master that teaches her to paint?
(a) Cratinus.
(b) da Vinci.
(c) Pamphile.
(d) Marcia.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who prophesies that Rome will be built on Mount Palatine?

4. Who predicts that Justinian will become emperor?

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

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