1. What does Marguerite de la Riviere do when she learns that the party missing from a ball is imprisoned for debt?
(a) She orders him to be killed.
(b) She does not learn anything about someone being imprisoned for debt.
(c) She pays his debt.
(d) She mocks him.

2. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?
(a) Amazons.
(b) Hippolytans.
(c) Latins.
(d) Greeks.

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

4. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Aggrippina.
(b) Argia.
(c) Artemisia.
(d) Triaria.

5. Who tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?
(a) Fredegunde.
(b) Cloelia.
(c) Artemisia.
(d) Lilia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?

2. What does Rectitude claim is the main problem in educating women?

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

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

5. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?

(see the answer key)

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