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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Marquis Saluzzo marry?
(a) Griselda.
(b) Hippo.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Lucretia.

4. 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) Countess of Coemen.
(b) Julia.
(c) Xanthippe.
(d) Tertia Aemilia.

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

6. Who throws herself overboard to avoid being raped when she is kidnapped?
(a) Hippo.
(b) Griselda.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Florence.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Christine suggest women are unable to do in Section 2, Part 25?
(a) Be faithful.
(b) Love their husbands.
(c) Invent new knowledge.
(d) Keep a secret.

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

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

14. Who is famous because Jupiter fell in love with her?
(a) Europa.
(b) Juno.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Jocasta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Saint Lucy punished for her faith?

2. In what are women as faithful as men?

3. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?

4. Who prays to the goddess Pessinus to witness her chastity and allow her to tow a ship to harbor with her belt?

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

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