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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?
(a) The Amazons invade the Greeks.
(b) Because they fear the Amazons.
(c) There is peace between the Greeks and the Amazons.
(d) Because they want wives.

2. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?
(a) Malice and gossip.
(b) Chastity and virtue.
(c) A natural delight in slander.
(d) Dislike of women.

3. Who marries the King of Palmyria?
(a) Synoppe.
(b) Zenobia.
(c) Lilia.
(d) Artemisia.

4. Who invents the arts of dying wool and weaving fine tapestries?
(a) Thamaris.
(b) Arachne.
(c) Irene.
(d) Pamphile.

5. Who is Clotar's mother?
(a) Queen Fredegunde.
(b) Queen Artemisia.
(c) Queen Camilla.
(d) Queen Zenobia.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the three ladies appear, why does the first lady chide Christine for believing books?

2. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?

3. What is the meaning of the word sibyl?

4. Who defeats her enemy by instructing the army to hold boughs from trees so the enemy thinks the forest is near?

5. What kind of citizens will Rectitude and Christine fill the City of Ladies with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rectitude say about parents preferring sons to daughters?

2. In Section 1, part 10, how does Reason praise women in response to Cato's claim that attractive women are like roses with thorns underneath?

3. Once the buildings are finished, what does Rectitude tell Christine?

4. Describe Almathea's interactions with King Tarquin in Rome.

5. Why does Emperor Justinian marry Antonia?

6. How does Reason define good judgment?

7. Why should Theodoric's honor for his victory in battle belong to his mother, Lilia?

8. Who are the Amazons, and how do they live?

9. Compare and contrast Zenobia and Artemisia.

10. What does Reason say about the intelligence and education of Cornifica and Proba?

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