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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Medea despair for the rest of her life?
(a) Because her father dies.
(b) Because Leander commits suicide.
(c) Because Jason breaks his promise to marry her.
(d) Because Pyramus leaves her for Thisbe.

2. Who prays to the goddess Pessinus to witness her chastity and allow her to tow a ship to harbor with her belt?
(a) Europa.
(b) Busa.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Juno.

3. Who loves her husband, Scipio Africanus Elder, so much that she does not criticize him or slur his reputation when she discovers his affair with a servant?
(a) Countess of Coemen.
(b) Xanthippe.
(c) Tertia Aemilia.
(d) Julia.

4. When does King Ortiagon's wife kill the Roman general who raped her?
(a) A Roman general never rapes King Ortiagon's wife.
(b) When she escapes from his control.
(c) While he is counting the ransom money.
(d) Never.

5. According to Rectitude, how do women compare to men in terms of avariciousness?
(a) Women are less avaricious than men.
(b) Women are equally as avaricious as men.
(c) Women are more avaricious than men.
(d) Neither women nor men are avaricious.

6. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?
(a) Bernabino.
(b) Jason.
(c) Sagurat.
(d) Leander.

7. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?
(a) By visiting and trading clothes which allows their husbands to escape.
(b) By stealing the jail key and releasing them.
(c) The Lacedaemonian wives do not help their husbands escape from prison.
(d) By appealing to the court system.

8. When St. Catherine is decapitated, what miracle occurs?
(a) Milk flows from her wounds instead of blood.
(b) Idols crack.
(c) Angels descend.
(d) No miracle occurs.

9. Who throws herself overboard to avoid being raped when she is kidnapped?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Florence.
(c) Griselda.
(d) Hippo.

10. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?
(a) Christine.
(b) Lady Reason.
(c) Lady Rectitude.
(d) Lady Justice.

11. Who does Rectitude cite as an example of a discreet woman?
(a) Curia.
(b) Portia.
(c) Judith.
(d) Antonia.

12. When a woman is tortured for information concerning conspirators against Nero who met at her house, what does she do?
(a) Kills Nero.
(b) Refuses to betray the conspirators.
(c) Reveals the conspirators.
(d) Commits suicide.

13. Who remains faithful to Herod Antipater despite having an unhappy marriage?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Mariamme.
(c) Clotilde.
(d) Rebecca.

14. What does Marguerite de la Riviere do when she learns that the party missing from a ball is imprisoned for debt?
(a) She mocks him.
(b) She pays his debt.
(c) She orders him to be killed.
(d) She does not learn anything about someone being imprisoned for debt.

15. Why is Eulalie imprisoned and martyred?
(a) For rejecting the emperor's advances.
(b) For playing with angels.
(c) For refusing to stop talking about Jesus Christ.
(d) For sacrificing to the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Leander routinely swim across Hellespont?

2. Who is beaten for her debate with the judge Urban?

3. Who does God favor with twins despite the fact that she is old and infertile?

4. Whose counsel restores her husband to Emperor Justinian's favor?

5. Who grieves to death when Tiberius puts Germanicus to death?

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