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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9, II/25-II/33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the trench is completed, what must Christine do to begin building the foundation?
(a) Buy bricks and mortar.
(b) Change into clothes she can work in.
(c) Take up her pen.
(d) Start digging.

2. Who changes Ulysses's men into swine?
(a) Circe.
(b) Manto.
(c) Ceres.
(d) Medea.

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

4. What does Christine suggest women are unable to do in Section 2, Part 25?
(a) Invent new knowledge.
(b) Keep a secret.
(c) Love their husbands.
(d) Be faithful.

5. Who writes "Letter of Othea to Hector"?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Proba.
(d) Christine de Pizan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who falls out of favor with Emperor Justinian but regains favor by following his wife's advice?

2. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?

3. Who is a better painter than the men of her time?

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

5. Who avenges her mother's death by killing the entire population of her mother's murderer's country?

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