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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 does Marquis Saluzzo marry?
(a) Hippo.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Griselda.
(d) Lucretia.

2. Who is so well versed in the arts and sciences that even the bible speaks of her abilities?
(a) Empress Hippolyta.
(b) Queen Thamiris.
(c) Queen Zenobia.
(d) Empress Nicuala.

3. What country does the King of Palmyria and his wife subjugate?
(a) Greece.
(b) Amazonia.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Italy.

4. Who carries nine books to King Tarquin in Rome?
(a) Medea.
(b) Erythrea.
(c) Elissa.
(d) Almathea.

5. After the trench is completed, what must Christine do to begin building the foundation?
(a) Start digging.
(b) Change into clothes she can work in.
(c) Buy bricks and mortar.
(d) Take up her pen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Boccaccio's writings does Rectitude allude to in Section 2, Part 52?

2. Who tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?

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

4. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

5. Who honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?

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