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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the emperor locks Martina in his temple, what does he find her doing when he returns?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Playing with angels.
(c) Cracking his idols.
(d) Dying.

3. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?
(a) Refuses to betray the conspirators.
(b) Commits suicide.
(c) Kills Nero.
(d) Reveals the conspirators.

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

5. Who is converted when he kidnaps Saint Lucy with the intent of raping her?
(a) King Hannibal.
(b) King Marinus.
(c) King Olybrius.
(d) King Aucejas.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?
(a) Hides him in a trunk.
(b) Marries someone else.
(c) Joins him in exile.
(d) Commits suicide.

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

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

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

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

15. Who holds a joust during which they abduct Sabinian women?
(a) Romulus and Remus.
(b) Aeneas and Hercules.
(c) Holofernes and Ahasuerus.
(d) Belisarius and Justinian.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the magnificent sepulcher built in King Mausolus's honor become known as?

3. Who falls out of favor with Emperor Justinian but regains favor by following his wife's advice?

4. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?

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

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