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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helps Jason acquire the Golden Fleece?
(a) Manto.
(b) Medea.
(c) Sappho.
(d) Circes.

2. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?
(a) Pamphile.
(b) Irene.
(c) Arachne.
(d) Thamaris.

3. Whose gift of prophecy causes some to claim that Phoebus loves her?
(a) Almathea.
(b) Erythrea.
(c) Medea.
(d) Elissa.

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

5. What gift does God bestow upon the sibyls?
(a) None.
(b) The gift of wealth.
(c) The gift of attractiveness.
(d) The gift of prophecy.

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

7. Who makes women perfect in mind and body?
(a) God.
(b) Women are not perfect in mind and body.
(c) Nature.
(d) Satan.

8. What is Theodoric's mother's name?
(a) Lilia.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Camilla.
(d) Zenobia.

9. Who receives high honors for saving her father when his enemies attack him during a triumphal procession in Rome?
(a) Claudine.
(b) Triaria.
(c) Griselda.
(d) Antonia.

10. Who kills Queen Penthesila?
(a) Hector of Troy.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Pyrrhus.
(d) Aeneas.

11. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Isis.
(d) Medea.

12. What is Christine supposed to build?
(a) A home for abused women.
(b) A walled city for virtuous ladies.
(c) A new culture and society.
(d) A church for Christians.

13. Who tells the Greeks of their upcoming struggles and battles?
(a) Almathea.
(b) Opis.
(c) Erythrea.
(d) Nicostrata.

14. To Cato's claim that attractive women are like roses with thorns underneath, what does Reason say the thorns represent?
(a) Evil ways.
(b) Reason says there are no thorns in women's nature.
(c) Contrition and fear of doing wrong.
(d) Violent natures.

15. What does the woman whose mother is imprisoned and sentenced to starvation do to help her mother?
(a) Allows herself to be imprisoned to keep her mother company.
(b) Visits daily and breastfeeds her mother.
(c) Disowns her mother.
(d) Helps her mother escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?

2. Who are the first Amazons to attack the invading Greeks?

3. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?

4. What is better than good judgment because it can benefit mankind for all of eternity?

5. Who fights Vespasian at her husband's side?

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