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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the idea that female children result from a deficiency in the womb irrational?
(a) This is not an irrational idea.
(b) Because women are not developed in the womb.
(c) Because females result from extravagance.
(d) Because God made women and men equally noble and virtuous.

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

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

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

6. Who prophesies that Rome will be built on Mount Palatine?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Queen of Sheba.
(d) Queen Basine.

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

8. After the three ladies appear, why does the first lady chide Christine for believing books?
(a) The first lady does not chide Christine for believing books.
(b) Because books are often mistranslated.
(c) Because authority is often proven wrong at a later date.
(d) Because women should not be reading in the first place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rectitude claim few wives are?

2. Who are the three Jewish women to whom God grants the gift of prophecy?

3. 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?

4. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?

5. Whose birth and life does Erythrea foretell?

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