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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 male author praises intellectual women?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Boccacio.
(c) Plato.
(d) Matheolus.

2. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Argia.
(b) Aggrippina.
(c) Artemisia.
(d) Triaria.

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

4. Who is able to reverse people's emotions and exhort men to perform courageous feats?
(a) Sempronia.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Dido.
(d) Elissa.

5. Who prophesies that Rome will be built on Mount Palatine?
(a) Queen of Sheba.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Queen Basine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which queen is responsible for capturing and killing King Cyrus when he attempts to attack the Amazons?

2. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

3. Who marries the King of Palmyria?

4. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?

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

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