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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, I/37-I/48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What male author praises intellectual women?
(a) Plato.
(b) Matheolus.
(c) Boccacio.
(d) Socrates.

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

3. Who disputes the idea that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermines moral qualities?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Justice.

4. Who does mankind gain more from than was lost through Eve?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

5. Who has complete knowledge of pyromancy?
(a) Nicostrata.
(b) Medea.
(c) Proba.
(d) Manto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?

2. What country does the King of Palmyria and his wife subjugate?

3. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

4. To Cato's claim that attractive women are like roses with thorns underneath, what does Reason say the thorns represent?

5. Why do Hercules and Theseus invade the Amazons?

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