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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Emperor Olybrius imprison Saint Margaret?
(a) For playing with angels.
(b) For rejecting his advances.
(c) For sacrificing to the gods.
(d) For talking about Jesus Christ.

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

4. Who is beaten for her debate with the judge Urban?
(a) Eulalie.
(b) Martina.
(c) Justine.
(d) Theodosina.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who refuses Pharaoh's advances?
(a) Clotilde.
(b) Mariamme.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Penelope.

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

12. Who has a tendency to yield to his carnal desires and kill those who object to his gluttony?
(a) Bernabo.
(b) Nero.
(c) Saluzzo.
(d) Socrates.

13. Who does Rectitude cite as an example of a discreet woman?
(a) Judith.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Curia.
(d) Portia.

14. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?
(a) Bernabino.
(b) Sagurat.
(c) Jason.
(d) Leander.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ghismonda take as a lover?

2. Why does Marquis Saluzzo apologize to his wife?

3. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?

4. Who hides and saves her husband, Quintus Lucretius, when he is sentenced to death for a crime?

5. What does Marguerite de la Riviere do when she learns that the party missing from a ball is imprisoned for debt?

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