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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Marquis Saluzzo apologize to his wife?
(a) He does not apologize to his wife.
(b) Because she tries to kill him.
(c) Because he is convinced of her fidelity and constancy.
(d) Because she threatens to leave him for another man.

3. When Veturia begs her son to make peace, what does he tell her she should do instead of begging him?
(a) Leave him alone.
(b) Never speak to him again.
(c) Stop listening to other people.
(d) Command him.

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Julia lose her will to live?
(a) She sees Pompey's bloody robes.
(b) Pompey is unfaithful to her.
(c) Julius Caesar disowns her.
(d) Julius Caesar dies.

9. Who lives a chaste widowhood after Emperor Nero kills her husband, Drusus Tiberius?
(a) Griselda.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Lucretia.
(d) Hippo.

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

11. Who does God favor with twins despite the fact that she is old and infertile?
(a) Mariamme.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Ruth.
(d) Penelope.

12. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?
(a) Sulpicia.
(b) Tertia Aemilia.
(c) Queen Hypsicratea.
(d) Pompeia Paulina.

13. What does Marguerite de la Riviere do when she learns that the party missing from a ball is imprisoned for debt?
(a) She mocks him.
(b) She orders him to be killed.
(c) She pays his debt.
(d) She does not learn anything about someone being imprisoned for debt.

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

15. Who is Ulysses's faithful wife?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Mariamme.
(d) Susanna.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who refuses Pharaoh's advances?

2. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?

3. Who does Marguerite de la Riviere notice is missing from a ball?

4. Who welcomes the citizens to the City of Ladies?

5. In what are women as faithful as men?

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