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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 kills Queen Penthesila?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Hector of Troy.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Achilles.

2. Who is denounced by two old priests when they fail in their attempt to make her sin?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Clotilde.
(d) Mariamme.

3. Who tells the Greeks of their upcoming struggles and battles?
(a) Erythrea.
(b) Opis.
(c) Almathea.
(d) Nicostrata.

4. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
(a) Aeneas.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Hector of Troy.
(d) Achilles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who restores Metabus' throne?

2. Who is Aeneas's wife and the mother of Julius Silvanus?

3. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?

4. Who tries to seduce Florence?

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

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