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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. According to Rectitude, when will women attain perfection?
(a) When men do.
(b) Women are already perfect.
(c) Very soon.
(d) Never.

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

3. What do the Lombard women due to avoid being raped by the victors of their people?
(a) Hid in the forest outside their village.
(b) Commit mass suicide.
(c) They cannot prevent the victors from raping them.
(d) Tuck dead chickens under their breasts.

4. Who controls Rome until the Romans exile him and is also known as Coriolanus?
(a) Marcius.
(b) Nero.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Belisarius.

5. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?
(a) When she escapes from his control.
(b) While he is counting the ransom money.
(c) A Roman general never rapes King Ortiagon's wife.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who throws herself overboard to avoid being raped when she is kidnapped?

2. Who ignores King Creon's edict forbidding burial and buries her beloved husband, Polynices?

3. Who tries to seduce Florence?

4. Who hides and saves her husband, Quintus Lucretius, when he is sentenced to death for a crime?

5. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens between Saint Lucy and King Aucejas?

4. How does Judith save the Jews from Holofernes?

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

6. What question does Christine ask that causes Rectitude to offer Julia, Pompey's wife, as an example to refute the claim?

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

8. How does Xanthippe demonstrate her love for Socrates?

9. What results from Thisbe's mother's disapproval of Thisbe's love for Pyramus?

10. What leads to Ghismonda's suicide?

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