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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is so intelligent that many declare that she is the goddess of arms, warfare, and wisdom?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Medea.
(c) Isis.
(d) Nicostrata.

2. Why don't women participate in court?
(a) Because women are intimidated by criminals.
(b) Because women are not moral enough.
(c) Because court goes against women's natural modesty.
(d) Because women are not intelligent enough.

3. Why have the daughters of God been sent to Earth?
(a) To punish the wicked.
(b) To restore order and justice.
(c) The three ladies are not the daughters of God.
(d) To take Christine to heaven.

4. Why does Christine wonder if marriage is unbearable?
(a) Because women are inconstant.
(b) Because men are impossible to live with.
(c) Because women are impossible to live with.
(d) Because men are inconstant.

5. What country does Artemisia become Queen of?
(a) Mesopotamia.
(b) Palmyria.
(c) Caria.
(d) Italy.

6. Who follows King Mithradates into battle rather than reveling in luxury in her own land?
(a) Queen Drypetina of Laodicea.
(b) Queen Griselda of France.
(c) Queen Claudine of Rome.
(d) Queen Hypicratea of Amazonia.

7. Who is the author of the book that Christine reads at the beginning of "The Book of the City of Ladies"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sappho.
(c) Boccacio.
(d) Matheolus.

8. What is the meaning of the word sibyl?
(a) Very beautiful woman.
(b) One privy to the thoughts of God.
(c) One of affluence.
(d) An evil being.

9. Whose gift of prophecy causes some to claim that Phoebus loves her?
(a) Medea.
(b) Erythrea.
(c) Elissa.
(d) Almathea.

10. Who tricks the guard of an enemy king and leads high-born Roman virgins back to their families?
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Cloelia.
(c) Lilia.
(d) Fredegunde.

11. What country does the King of Palmyria and his wife subjugate?
(a) Amazonia.
(b) Italy.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Greece.

12. Whose authority does Christine yield to at the beginning of this novel, though she is unable to support the view from her personal experience?
(a) Male authors.
(b) Religious leaders.
(c) Politicans.
(d) Female authors.

13. According to Lady Reason, what goes against reason and nature?
(a) Chastity and virtue.
(b) A natural delight in slander.
(c) Dislike of women.
(d) Malice and gossip.

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

15. Who does Theseus beg to marry?
(a) Hippolyta.
(b) Thamiris.
(c) Synoppe.
(d) Menalippe.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the trench is completed, what must Christine do to begin building the foundation?

2. Who disputes the idea that women's weak bodies make them inferior and undermines moral qualities?

3. Who kills Queen Penthesila?

4. Who does Queen Penthesila fall in love with when she hears of his courageous feats?

5. Who predicts that Justinian will become emperor?

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