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

2. Who does Reason claim never criticized women more than men?
(a) Women.
(b) Men.
(c) God.
(d) Christine.

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

4. Who fights Vespasian at her husband's side?
(a) Empress Griselda.
(b) Empress Claudine.
(c) Empress Hypsicratea.
(d) Empress Triaria.

5. What country does Artemisia become Queen of?
(a) Italy.
(b) Caria.
(c) Palmyria.
(d) Mesopotamia.

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

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

4. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

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

(see the answer key)

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