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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose duty is to judge and repay everyone according to their just deserts?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) Lady Justice.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

2. Who fights Vespasian at her husband's side?
(a) Empress Griselda.
(b) Empress Triaria.
(c) Empress Claudine.
(d) Empress Hypsicratea.

3. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Medea.
(c) Nicostrata.
(d) Isis.

4. What is better than good judgment because it can benefit mankind for all of eternity?
(a) Chastity.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Learning.
(d) Virtue.

5. Who creates the Latin alphabet?
(a) Circes.
(b) Minerva.
(c) Proba.
(d) Nicostrata.

6. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?
(a) Politicans.
(b) Religious leaders.
(c) Male authors.
(d) Female authors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. 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) The Queen of Sheba.
(c) Christine.
(d) Almathea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?

2. Who predicts the fall of Troy?

3. What country does Artemisia become Queen of?

4. What does Rectitude claim few wives are?

5. Who predicts that Justinian will become emperor?

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