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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. Who is asked to reign as Queen of the City of Ladies?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Saint Lucy.
(c) Saint Agatha.
(d) Saint Catherine.

2. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?
(a) Manto.
(b) Medea.
(c) Ceres.
(d) Circe.

3. Who disputes the idea that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermines moral qualities?
(a) Lady Justice.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Reason.

4. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?
(a) Queen Artemisia.
(b) Queen Fredegunde.
(c) Queen Zenobia.
(d) Queen Camilla.

5. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?
(a) Aggrippina.
(b) Argia.
(c) Artemisia.
(d) Triaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is a better painter than the men of her time?

2. Who commits suicide after Tarquin the Proud rapes her?

3. Who wins a legal case against taxing women's valuables?

4. Why does Marquis Saluzzo apologize to his wife?

5. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?

(see the answer key)

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