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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. Who is worshiped by the Romans as the goddess of wealth and marriage?

2. According to Rectitude in Section 2, Part 30, what can no man match?

3. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?

4. Who is denounced by two old priests when they fail in their attempt to make her sin?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What leads to Ghismonda's suicide?

3. How does Marquis Saluzzo test Griselda's constancy?

4. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

5. What happens between Saint Lucy and King Aucejas?

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

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

8. What happens when Martina reveals her Christianity to the emperor who wants to marry her?

9. How does Artemisia honor her husband in death?

10. What does Marcius say when his mother, Veturia, begs him to make peace with the Romans?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the different symbols used throughout the novel to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 2

How does Christine change throughout the novel? Detail the changes she makes and the reasons behind those changes.

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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