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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. Who does God favor with twins despite the fact that she is old and infertile?
(a) Mariamme.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Penelope.

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

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

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

5. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?
(a) Ceres.
(b) Isis.
(c) Minerva.
(d) Medea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Theseus beg to marry?

2. What country does the King of Palmyria and his wife subjugate?

3. Who prophesies about the wooden plank that comes from the tree which will be used to kill the man who will destroy the Jewish faith?

4. Who is so chaste in marriage and widowhood that she lives with her mother-in-law after her husband dies?

5. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?

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