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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?
(a) Julia.
(b) Countess of Coemen.
(c) Tertia Aemilia.
(d) Xanthippe.

4. How is Saint Lucy punished for her faith?
(a) She is sent to a brothel to be raped.
(b) She is beheaded.
(c) She is imprisoned and starved.
(d) She is not punished for her faith.

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

6. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?
(a) Because her father dies.
(b) Because Leander commits suicide.
(c) Because Jason breaks his promise to marry her.
(d) Because Pyramus leaves her for Thisbe.

7. Why does Saint Catherine chide Emperor Maxentius?
(a) For asking her to marry him.
(b) For talking about Jesus.
(c) For sacrificing to the gods.
(d) For killing the Jews.

8. Who remains faithful to Herod Antipater despite having an unhappy marriage?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Clotilde.
(c) Mariamme.
(d) Rebecca.

9. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?
(a) A Roman general never rapes King Ortiagon's wife.
(b) Never.
(c) When she escapes from his control.
(d) While he is counting the ransom money.

10. Who pleads with King Clovis to accept God?
(a) Clotilde.
(b) Susanna.
(c) Hortensia.
(d) Sarah.

11. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?
(a) To visit Hero.
(b) To visit Thisbe.
(c) To escape his home.
(d) To exercise.

12. According to Rectitude, when will women attain perfection?
(a) When men do.
(b) Never.
(c) Women are already perfect.
(d) Very soon.

13. Who does Justine's attempted suitor hire?
(a) A wife.
(b) A necromancer.
(c) An executioner.
(d) An accountant.

14. Where does Lisabetta of Messina hide Lorenzo's severed head?
(a) She cannot find Lorenzo's head.
(b) In her closet.
(c) In a pot of basil.
(d) In her garden.

15. Who wins a legal case against taxing women's valuables?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Susanna.
(d) Hortensia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Emperor Olybrius imprison Saint Margaret?

2. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?

3. When the emperor locks Martina in his temple, what does he find her doing when he returns?

4. Who loves Queen Blanche of France for life despite the impossibility of having his love returned?

5. What does Pyramus do when he find Thisbe's veil which was eaten and vomited by a lion?

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