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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, I/28-I/36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Christine supposed to build?
(a) A home for abused women.
(b) A new culture and society.
(c) A walled city for virtuous ladies.
(d) A church for Christians.

2. Whose duty is to protect the rights of the innocent and prevent the wicked from abusing their power?
(a) Lady Reason.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) Lady Justice.
(d) Lady Rectitude.

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

4. Who creates the Latin alphabet?
(a) Circes.
(b) Nicostrata.
(c) Proba.
(d) Minerva.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Theodoric's mother's name?

2. Why is the idea that female children result from a deficiency in the womb irrational?

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

4. Who defeats Xerxes when he attacks the Lacedaemoniana?

5. Who invents the science and techniques of agriculture?

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