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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, II/52-II/60.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is sent to school with her brother due to her parents' clever trick?
(a) Sappho.
(b) Cornifica.
(c) Medea.
(d) Proba.

2. Who invents new forms of poetry?
(a) Proba.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Manto.
(d) Cornifica.

3. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?
(a) Tertia Aemilia.
(b) Sulpicia.
(c) Queen Hypsicratea.
(d) Pompeia Paulina.

4. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?
(a) To escape his home.
(b) To exercise.
(c) To visit Hero.
(d) To visit Thisbe.

5. Who does Christine praise in Section 2, Part 20?
(a) Xanthippe.
(b) Countess of Coemen.
(c) Gaia Carilla.
(d) Tertia Aemilia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invents the Egyptian alphabet?

2. What male author praises intellectual women?

3. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?

4. Why does Julia lose her will to live?

5. Who commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?

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