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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 the magnificent sepulcher built in King Mausolus's honor become known as?
(a) A grave.
(b) A tomb.
(c) A mausoleum.
(d) A pyramid.

2. When the emperor locks Martina in his temple, what does he find her doing when he returns?
(a) Playing with angels.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Cracking his idols.
(d) Dying.

3. Whose counsel restores her husband to Emperor Justinian's favor?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Curia.
(c) Judith.
(d) Portia.

4. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?
(a) Argia.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Triaria.
(d) Aggrippina.

5. What is the worst possible thing imaginable for chaste women?
(a) Murder.
(b) Rape.
(c) Chastity.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a tendency to yield to his carnal desires and kill those who object to his gluttony?

2. When Veturia begs her son to make peace, what does he tell her she should do instead of begging him?

3. How does Marquis Saluzzo's wife react to his claim that he must kill their children to appease his barons?

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

5. Who is converted when he kidnaps Saint Lucy with the intent of raping her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Artemisia honor her husband in death?

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

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

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

9. How does Curia save her husband from exile and death?

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

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