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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After the trench is completed, what must Christine do to begin building the foundation?
(a) Buy bricks and mortar.
(b) Change into clothes she can work in.
(c) Take up her pen.
(d) Start digging.

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

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

5. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?
(a) Dislike of women.
(b) Malice and gossip.
(c) A natural delight in slander.
(d) Chastity and virtue.

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

7. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Menalippe.
(c) Semiramis.
(d) Hippolyta.

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

9. Why don't women participate in court?
(a) Because court goes against women's natural modesty.
(b) Because women are intimidated by criminals.
(c) Because women are not moral enough.
(d) Because women are not intelligent enough.

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

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

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

13. Who marries Saturn and gives birth to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto?
(a) Dido.
(b) Lavinia.
(c) Opis.
(d) Sempronia.

14. Who invents the science and techniques of agriculture?
(a) Ceres.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Isis.
(d) Medea.

15. Why does Christine think herself unfortunate?
(a) She does not think of herself as unfortunate.
(b) For being born a woman.
(c) For being poor.
(d) For losing her job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invents new forms of poetry?

2. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?

3. Who has complete knowledge of pyromancy?

4. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?

5. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

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