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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Argia.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Aggrippina.
(d) Triaria.

2. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?
(a) Hides him in a trunk.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Marries someone else.
(d) Joins him in exile.

3. According to Rectitude in Section 2, Part 30, what can no man match?
(a) The great services of women.
(b) The intelligence of women.
(c) The power of God.
(d) The immorality of women.

4. Which woman provided the greatest service to mankind?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Justice.

5. Who is renowned for her terrible misfortune?
(a) Jocasta.
(b) Europa.
(c) Juno.
(d) Claudia.

6. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?
(a) Triaria.
(b) Argia.
(c) Aggrippina.
(d) Artemisia.

7. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?
(a) By appealing to the court system.
(b) By visiting and trading clothes which allows their husbands to escape.
(c) The Lacedaemonian wives do not help their husbands escape from prison.
(d) By stealing the jail key and releasing them.

8. Whose counsel restores her husband to Emperor Justinian's favor?
(a) Judith.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Portia.
(d) Curia.

9. What happens when the emperor tries to force the blessed virgin Martina to worship his idols?
(a) She refuses.
(b) The idols crack.
(c) Milk flows from her wounds.
(d) Angels descend.

10. Who welcomes the citizens to the City of Ladies?
(a) Christine.
(b) Lady Justice.
(c) Lady Reason.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

11. According to Rectitude, how do women compare to men in terms of avariciousness?
(a) Women are more avaricious than men.
(b) Women are equally as avaricious as men.
(c) Women are less avaricious than men.
(d) Neither women nor men are avaricious.

12. Who does Saint Lucy of Syracus pray to for her mother's cure?
(a) Saint Eulalie.
(b) Saint Agatha.
(c) Saint Lucy.
(d) Saint Catherine.

13. What is the worst possible thing imaginable for chaste women?
(a) Murder.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Rape.

14. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?
(a) Joins a monastery.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Kills her father.
(d) Ghismonda's father does not kill her lover.

15. Who commits suicide after Tarquin the Proud rapes her?
(a) Hippo.
(b) Florence.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Lucretia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Christine suggest women are unable to do in Section 2, Part 25?

2. Who has a tendency to yield to his carnal desires and kill those who object to his gluttony?

3. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?

4. Who is asked to reign as Queen of the City of Ladies?

5. Who does God favor with twins despite the fact that she is old and infertile?

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