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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country does Artemisia become Queen of?
(a) Mesopotamia.
(b) Caria.
(c) Palmyria.
(d) Italy.

2. Who is the first lady that speaks to Christine?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Justice.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Reason.

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

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

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

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

8. Whose birth and life does Erythrea foretell?
(a) Socrates's.
(b) Shakespeare's.
(c) Jesus Christ's.
(d) Christine's.

9. Who predicts that Justinian will become emperor?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Deborah.

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

11. Who does Theseus beg to marry?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Hippolyta.
(c) Menalippe.
(d) Thamiris.

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

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

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

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) Disowns her mother.
(c) Helps her mother escape.
(d) Visits daily and breastfeeds her mother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?

3. What is Christine supposed to build?

4. Which queen is responsible for capturing and killing King Cyrus when he attempts to attack the Amazons?

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

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