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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wins a legal case against taxing women's valuables?
(a) Susanna.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Hortensia.

2. How is Saint Lucy punished for her faith?
(a) She is sent to a brothel to be raped.
(b) She is not punished for her faith.
(c) She is beheaded.
(d) She is imprisoned and starved.

3. Who controls Rome until the Romans exile him and is also known as Coriolanus?
(a) Nero.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Belisarius.
(d) Marcius.

4. Who does Christine praise in Section 2, Part 20?
(a) Countess of Coemen.
(b) Tertia Aemilia.
(c) Gaia Carilla.
(d) Xanthippe.

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

6. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?
(a) Kills her father.
(b) Ghismonda's father does not kill her lover.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Joins a monastery.

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

8. How does Marquis Saluzzo's wife react to his claim that he must kill their children to appease his barons?
(a) She kills him.
(b) She cries hysterically.
(c) She does not complain.
(d) She runs away with her children.

9. Who saves the Jews by beheading Holofernes?
(a) Curia.
(b) Antonia.
(c) Esther.
(d) Judith.

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

11. Who does Justine's attempted suitor hire?
(a) An executioner.
(b) A necromancer.
(c) A wife.
(d) An accountant.

12. Who is asked to reign as Queen of the City of Ladies?
(a) Saint Agatha.
(b) Saint Lucy.
(c) Saint Catherine.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

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

14. Who is famous because Jupiter fell in love with her?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Jocasta.
(c) Juno.
(d) Europa.

15. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?
(a) Hides him in a trunk.
(b) Marries someone else.
(c) Commits suicide.
(d) Joins him in exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marquis Saluzzo pretend to kill the children his wife bares him?

2. Who has a tendency to yield to his carnal desires and kill those who object to his gluttony?

3. Who is Ulysses's faithful wife?

4. In Section 2, Part 24, how do the Lacedaemonian wives help their knightly husbands escape from prison?

5. What does Pyramus do when he find Thisbe's veil which was eaten and vomited by a lion?

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