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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who restores Metabus' throne?
(a) His daughter, Zenobia.
(b) His daughter, Camilla.
(c) His wife, Zenobia.
(d) His wife, Camilla.

2. Who creates silk and dyes it to create clothes?
(a) Irene.
(b) Pamphile.
(c) Irene.
(d) Arachne.

3. Who prophesies that the King of Thuringia will receive a vision if he remains chaste on his wedding night?
(a) Anna.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Queen Basine.
(d) Deborah.

4. After all the noble males in Scythia are killed, what do the women become after forbidding men to enter their kingdom?
(a) Hippolytans.
(b) Amazons.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Latins.

5. Who is renamed Dido after founding Carthage?
(a) Lavinia.
(b) Carilla.
(c) Elissa.
(d) Sempronia.

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

7. Who defeats Xerxes when he attacks the Lacedaemoniana?
(a) Camilla.
(b) Artemisia.
(c) Zenobia.
(d) Lilia.

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

9. Who fights Vespasian at her husband's side?
(a) Empress Claudine.
(b) Empress Triaria.
(c) Empress Hypsicratea.
(d) Empress Griselda.

10. 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) Female authors.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Politicans.

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

12. What gift does God bestow upon the sibyls?
(a) The gift of wealth.
(b) None.
(c) The gift of attractiveness.
(d) The gift of prophecy.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who follows King Mithradates into battle rather than reveling in luxury in her own land?

3. Who are the first Amazons to attack the invading Greeks?

4. What does Rectitude claim few wives are?

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

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