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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What male author praises intellectual women?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Boccacio.
(d) Matheolus.

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

3. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?
(a) Christine de Pizan.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Proba.
(d) Nicostrata.

4. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?
(a) Carilla.
(b) Sempronia.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Elissa.

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

6. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?
(a) Because they fear the Amazons.
(b) The Amazons invade the Greeks.
(c) There is peace between the Greeks and the Amazons.
(d) Because they want wives.

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

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

9. Who are the three Jewish women to whom God grants the gift of prophecy?
(a) Almatea, Nicostrata, and Opis.
(b) Dido, Lavinia, and Sempronia.
(c) Erythrea, Medea, and Elissa.
(d) Deborah, Elizabeth, and Anna.

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

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

12. Who is Aeneas's wife and the mother of Julius Silvanus?
(a) Sempronia.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Dido.
(d) Opis.

13. Who carries nine books to King Tarquin in Rome?
(a) Elissa.
(b) Almathea.
(c) Medea.
(d) Erythrea.

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

15. Who is honored by Roman newlywed wives' desire to emulate her?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Dido.
(c) Juno.
(d) Gaia Carilla.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rectitude think parents should not worry about the cost of a dowry for daughters?

2. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

3. What does the woman whose mother is imprisoned and sentenced to starvation do to help her mother?

4. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

5. Why don't women participate in court?

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