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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. Who is worshiped by the Romans as the goddess of wealth and marriage?
(a) Europa.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Juno.
(d) Dido.

2. Who bets that he can seduce Bernabo's wife?
(a) Ambrose.
(b) Bernabo.
(c) Decameron.
(d) Boccaccio.

3. When Veturia begs her son to make peace, what does he tell her she should do instead of begging him?
(a) Never speak to him again.
(b) Leave him alone.
(c) Command him.
(d) Stop listening to other people.

4. Who tries to seduce Florence?
(a) Her husband's brother.
(b) Her husband's father.
(c) Her husband's sister.
(d) Her brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What often assists in moral thinking, according to Rectitude?

3. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?

4. Who cares for Roman soldiers after their battle with Hannibal?

5. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Rectitude say to Christine's claim that the majority of women are not virtuous?

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

4. What are at least two examples of men being foolish by ignoring their wise wives' advice?

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

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

7. What happens between Saint Lucy and King Aucejas?

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

9. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

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

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