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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, II/52-II/60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Matheolus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Boccacio.

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

3. Who creates the Latin alphabet?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Proba.
(d) Circes.

4. Whose gift of prophecy causes some to claim that Phoebus loves her?
(a) Erythrea.
(b) Almathea.
(c) Medea.
(d) Elissa.

5. What is the worst possible thing imaginable for chaste women?
(a) Rape.
(b) Chastity.
(c) Murder.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Theseus beg to marry?

2. Who carries nine books to King Tarquin in Rome?

3. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

4. Who is Clotar's mother?

5. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

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