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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?
2. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?
3. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?
4. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?
5. Why does Marquis Saluzzo pretend to kill the children his wife bares him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What question does Christine ask that causes Rectitude to offer Julia, Pompey's wife, as an example to refute the claim?
2. Why does Rectitude resent the claim that women bring only evil to the world?
3. What does Marcius say when his mother, Veturia, begs him to make peace with the Romans?
4. What leads to Ghismonda's suicide?
5. How does Rectitude refute the common claim that women are inconstant?
6. What does Rectitude say about women dressing elegantly?
7. How is Susanna's chastity questioned and proven?
8. How does Judith save the Jews from Holofernes?
9. How does Marquis Saluzzo test Griselda's constancy?
10. What does Rectitude say to the idea that women are avaricious?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Reason, Rectitude, and Justice. How are their relationships with Christine similar and different?
Essay Topic 2
Does Christine actually believe what she has read about women? Explain your position.
Essay Topic 3
Investigate "The Book of the City of Ladies" as a feminist novel. How does it adhere to and differ from the typical feminist novel? What changes could be made to mark it more clearly as a feminist novel? What changes could be made to prevent critics from classifying the novel as a feminist novel?
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