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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) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

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

3. What does Rectitude claim is the main problem in educating women?
(a) It is too expensive.
(b) There is no problem in educating women.
(c) Women do not want to be more intelligent than their husbands.
(d) Men do not want women to be more intelligent than they are.

4. What does the magnificent sepulcher built in King Mausolus's honor become known as?
(a) A grave.
(b) A pyramid.
(c) A mausoleum.
(d) A tomb.

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

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

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

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

9. Why is Eulalie imprisoned and martyred?
(a) For playing with angels.
(b) For refusing to stop talking about Jesus Christ.
(c) For rejecting the emperor's advances.
(d) For sacrificing to the gods.

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

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

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

13. Who is renowned for her terrible misfortune?
(a) Juno.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Europa.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Lombard women due to avoid being raped by the victors of their people?

3. Who are foolish to ignore their wives' advice?

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?

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

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