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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who prophesies that the King of Thuringia will receive a vision if he remains chaste on his wedding night?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Queen Basine.
(c) Anna.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

4. Who do the Ephesians commission to paint a portrait of Diana?
(a) Thamaris.
(b) Arachne.
(c) Pamphile.
(d) Irene.

5. Who are the first Amazons to attack the invading Greeks?
(a) Menalippe and Hippolyta.
(b) Synoppe and Thamiris.
(c) Menalippe and Synoppe.
(d) Synoppe and Hippolyta.

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

7. Who is able to reverse people's emotions and exhort men to perform courageous feats?
(a) Elissa.
(b) Sempronia.
(c) Lavinia.
(d) Dido.

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

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

10. Who prophesies about the wooden plank that comes from the tree which will be used to kill the man who will destroy the Jewish faith?
(a) Erythrea.
(b) Almathea.
(c) Christine.
(d) The Queen of Sheba.

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

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

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

14. 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) Deborah, Elizabeth, and Anna.
(d) Erythrea, Medea, and Elissa.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does mankind gain more from than was lost through Eve?

3. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

4. What does Rectitude claim few wives are?

5. Who invents new forms of poetry?

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