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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 predicts that Justinian will become emperor?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Deborah.
(c) Nicostrata.
(d) Cassandra.

2. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?
(a) Never.
(b) A Roman general never rapes King Ortiagon's wife.
(c) While he is counting the ransom money.
(d) When she escapes from his control.

3. Whose counsel restores her husband to Emperor Justinian's favor?
(a) Portia.
(b) Judith.
(c) Curia.
(d) Antonia.

4. In what are women as faithful as men?
(a) In learning.
(b) In love.
(c) In friendship.
(d) In familial ties.

5. According to Rectitude, when will women attain perfection?
(a) Never.
(b) Women are already perfect.
(c) When men do.
(d) Very soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?

2. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?

3. Who is able to reverse people's emotions and exhort men to perform courageous feats?

4. Who are the three Jewish women to whom God grants the gift of prophecy?

5. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?

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