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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. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?

2. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?

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

4. Who does Rectitude cite as an example of a discreet woman?

5. Who refuses Pharaoh's advances?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Xanthippe demonstrate her love for Socrates?

2. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

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

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

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

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

7. How does Judith save the Jews from Holofernes?

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

9. What happens between Saint Lucy and King Aucejas?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the main themes in this novel and detail its recurrences throughout the novel. What does it add to the novel? How does it affect the difference characters?

Essay Topic 2

What role do sexist attitudes play in "The Book of the City of Ladies"? What attitudes about gender are represented and by which characters?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the reason for building the City of Ladies.

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