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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10, II/34-II/42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is better than good judgment because it can benefit mankind for all of eternity?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Learning.

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

3. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
(a) Hippolyta.
(b) Menalippe.
(c) Semiramis.
(d) Synoppe.

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

5. Why does Rectitude think parents should not worry about the cost of a dowry for daughters?
(a) Because educating sons is just as expensive.
(b) Parent should worry about the cost of a daughter's dowry.
(c) Because virtuous women do not require a dowry.
(d) Because God will provide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who creates the Latin alphabet?

2. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?

3. What does Rectitude claim is the main problem in educating women?

4. Why have the daughters of God been sent to Earth?

5. Who creates silk and dyes it to create clothes?

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