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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who prays to the goddess Pessinus to witness her chastity and allow her to tow a ship to harbor with her belt?
(a) Busa.
(b) Europa.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Juno.

4. Who honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?
(a) Triaria.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Argia.
(d) Aggrippina.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who cares for Roman soldiers after their battle with Hannibal?
(a) Europa.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Busa.
(d) Christine.

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

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

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

14. Which of Boccaccio's writings does Rectitude allude to in Section 2, Part 52?
(a) Matheolus.
(b) Fear and Loathing.
(c) Women.
(d) Decameron.

15. Who does Ghismonda take as a lover?
(a) Leander.
(b) Guiscardo.
(c) Pyramus.
(d) Jason.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?

3. Who throws herself overboard to avoid being raped when she is kidnapped?

4. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?

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

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