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

2. Who is beaten for her debate with the judge Urban?
(a) Theodosina.
(b) Justine.
(c) Eulalie.
(d) Martina.

3. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?
(a) Aggrippina.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Argia.
(d) Triaria.

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

5. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?
(a) To exercise.
(b) To visit Hero.
(c) To visit Thisbe.
(d) To escape his home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is so chaste in marriage and widowhood that she lives with her mother-in-law after her husband dies?

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

3. According to Rectitude, how do women compare to men in terms of avariciousness?

4. Which woman provided the greatest service to mankind?

5. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Christine mention about rape, and how does Rectitude respond?

2. Why does Rectitude argue for the education of females?

3. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

4. Describe the story about Bernabo and his wife.

5. How does Artemisia honor her husband in death?

6. Why does Rectitude resent the claim that women bring only evil to the world?

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

8. Who is Ulysses's wife, and why does Rectitude praise her?

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

10. How do the Lombard women prevent themselves from being raped?

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