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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
(a) Semiramis.
(b) Menalippe.
(c) Hippolyta.
(d) Synoppe.

2. Why don't women participate in court?
(a) Because women are not moral enough.
(b) Because court goes against women's natural modesty.
(c) Because women are intimidated by criminals.
(d) Because women are not intelligent enough.

3. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?
(a) Pyrrhus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Hector of Troy.

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

5. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?
(a) Boccacio.
(b) Matheolus.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Plato.

6. Who works hard to earn a living for her ailing, elderly father and herself?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Griselda.
(d) Drypetina.

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

8. Who is Irene's master that teaches her to paint?
(a) da Vinci.
(b) Marcia.
(c) Cratinus.
(d) Pamphile.

9. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?
(a) Cornifica.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Proba.
(d) Medea.

10. Who is Clotar's mother?
(a) Queen Artemisia.
(b) Queen Camilla.
(c) Queen Fredegunde.
(d) Queen Zenobia.

11. Who invents new forms of poetry?
(a) Cornifica.
(b) Proba.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Manto.

12. Who marries the King of Palmyria?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Zenobia.
(d) Lilia.

13. Why does Christine wonder if marriage is unbearable?
(a) Because women are impossible to live with.
(b) Because men are inconstant.
(c) Because women are inconstant.
(d) Because men are impossible to live with.

14. Who predicts the fall of Troy?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Queen Basine.

15. Who creates silk and dyes it to create clothes?
(a) Pamphile.
(b) Irene.
(c) Irene.
(d) Arachne.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Christine think herself unfortunate?

2. Whose duty is to judge and repay everyone according to their just deserts?

3. Who carries nine books to King Tarquin in Rome?

4. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?

5. What does Hypsipyle do when rebels advance to kill her father, King Thaos?

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