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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. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?
(a) Latins.
(b) Hippolytans.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Amazons.

2. Who marries Saturn and gives birth to Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Sempronia.
(c) Dido.
(d) Opis.

3. Who restores Metabus' throne?
(a) His daughter, Camilla.
(b) His wife, Camilla.
(c) His daughter, Zenobia.
(d) His wife, Zenobia.

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

5. Who is Irene's master that teaches her to paint?
(a) da Vinci.
(b) Pamphile.
(c) Cratinus.
(d) Marcia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?

2. What is Christine supposed to build?

3. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

4. To Cato's claim that attractive women are like roses with thorns underneath, what does Reason say the thorns represent?

5. Who does mankind gain more from than was lost through Eve?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Emperor Justinian marry Antonia?

3. Name and describe two stories that Reason tells to dispute the claim that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermine moral qualities.

4. Who are the three ladies that appear to Christine, and why do they visit her?

5. When Christine asks if marriage is unbearable because women are impossible to live with, how does Rectitude respond?

6. In Section 1, Parts 28-36, what allusions to Greek and Roman mythology does Reason make?

7. In Section 1, Parts 37-41, what inventions are listed, and who makes them?

8. 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?

9. When Christine asks if God gives women an aptitude for learning, how does Reason respond?

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

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