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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. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?
(a) Because they want wives.
(b) Because they fear the Amazons.
(c) There is peace between the Greeks and the Amazons.
(d) The Amazons invade the Greeks.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?
(a) Religious leaders.
(b) Politicans.
(c) Male authors.
(d) Female authors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the magnificent sepulcher built in King Mausolus's honor become known as?

2. What country does Artemisia become Queen of?

3. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?

4. Who follows King Mithradates into battle rather than reveling in luxury in her own land?

5. Who defeats Xerxes when he attacks the Lacedaemoniana?

(see the answer key)

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