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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15, III/10-III/19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Rectitude in Section 2, Part 30, what can no man match?
(a) The immorality of women.
(b) The power of God.
(c) The intelligence of women.
(d) The great services of women.

2. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?
(a) There is peace between the Greeks and the Amazons.
(b) The Amazons invade the Greeks.
(c) Because they fear the Amazons.
(d) Because they want wives.

3. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?
(a) Proba.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Manto.
(d) Sappho.

4. Who conquers Ethiopia and India?
(a) Caria.
(b) Synoppe.
(c) Hippolyta.
(d) Semiramis.

5. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) Lady Rectitude.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Christine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Rectitude cite as an example of a discreet woman?

4. Who buries martyrs bodies in Constantinople until she joins her husband in heaven?

5. Who is Ulysses's faithful wife?

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