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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. What often assists in moral thinking, according to Rectitude?
(a) Being male.
(b) Relationships with men.
(c) Religion.
(d) Education.

2. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?
(a) Queen Dido of Carthage.
(b) Medea.
(c) Thisbe.
(d) Grisela.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Boccaccio's writings does Rectitude allude to in Section 2, Part 52?

2. According to Rectitude, when will women attain perfection?

3. Who arrives to finish the City of Ladies once Rectitude completes her portion?

4. Who refuses Pharaoh's advances?

5. Who remains faithful to Herod Antipater despite having an unhappy marriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Susanna's chastity questioned and proven?

2. What happens when Martina reveals her Christianity to the emperor who wants to marry her?

3. Why is Claudia's reputation compromised, and how does she prove her chastity?

4. Describe the story about Bernabo and his wife.

5. What happens when Rectitude finishes her portion of the City of Ladies?

6. What does Rectitude say to the idea that women are avaricious?

7. How does Rectitude refute the common claim that women are inconstant?

8. How do the wives of the knights who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece save their husbands?

9. What is the result of Theodosina's debate with the judge Urban?

10. How does Xanthippe demonstrate her love for Socrates?

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