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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 commits suicide when Aeneas sneaks away in the middle of the night?
(a) Grisela.
(b) Queen Dido of Carthage.
(c) Thisbe.
(d) Medea.

2. Who invents the science and techniques of agriculture?
(a) Medea.
(b) Isis.
(c) Nicostrata.
(d) Ceres.

3. Who bets that he can seduce Bernabo's wife?
(a) Boccaccio.
(b) Decameron.
(c) Bernabo.
(d) Ambrose.

4. Who excels in the seven liberal arts and becomes a remarkable poet?
(a) Cornifica.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Manto.
(d) Proba.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?

3. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?

4. Who creates the Latin alphabet?

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

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