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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is so chaste in marriage and widowhood that she lives with her mother-in-law after her husband dies?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Rebecca.

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

5. Why does Marquis Saluzzo pretend to kill the children his wife bares him?
(a) He does not.
(b) Because he wants her to leave him.
(c) As a practical joke.
(d) To test her constancy.

6. Who is denounced by two old priests when they fail in their attempt to make her sin?
(a) Mariamme.
(b) Clotilde.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Susanna.

7. Who loves Queen Blanche of France for life despite the impossibility of having his love returned?
(a) King Guiscardo.
(b) King Saint Louis.
(c) King Aucejas.
(d) King Lorenzo.

8. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?
(a) Grisela.
(b) Medea.
(c) Thisbe.
(d) Queen Dido of Carthage.

9. Who hides and saves her husband, Quintus Lucretius, when he is sentenced to death for a crime?
(a) Curia.
(b) Judith.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Portia.

10. What do the Lombard women due to avoid being raped by the victors of their people?
(a) Commit mass suicide.
(b) Hid in the forest outside their village.
(c) Tuck dead chickens under their breasts.
(d) They cannot prevent the victors from raping them.

11. Who is asked to reign as Queen of the City of Ladies?
(a) Saint Agatha.
(b) Saint Lucy.
(c) The Virgin Mary.
(d) Saint Catherine.

12. Who is worshiped by the Romans as the goddess of wealth and marriage?
(a) Europa.
(b) Juno.
(c) Jocasta.
(d) Dido.

13. Who falls out of favor with Emperor Justinian but regains favor by following his wife's advice?
(a) Julius Caesar.
(b) Holofernes.
(c) Justin.
(d) Belisarius.

14. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?
(a) Christine.
(b) Lady Justice.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Reason.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Christine object to women dressing elegantly?

3. Why does Emperor Olybrius imprison Saint Margaret?

4. Who convinces King Ahasuerus to rescind his order to kill all Jews?

5. Who is beaten for her debate with the judge Urban?

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