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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Christine suggest women are unable to do in Section 2, Part 25?
(a) Invent new knowledge.
(b) Keep a secret.
(c) Love their husbands.
(d) Be faithful.

3. 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.

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

5. Why does Emperor Olybrius imprison Saint Margaret?
(a) For playing with angels.
(b) For rejecting his advances.
(c) For sacrificing to the gods.
(d) For talking about Jesus Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Saint Catherine chide Emperor Maxentius?

2. Who mentions the claim that women hate their husbands when they are old and scholarly?

3. Who is renowned for her terrible misfortune?

4. Who screams obscenities at Emperor Nero in an attempt to receive the same sentence as her husband, Seneca?

5. Who hides and saves her husband, Quintus Lucretius, when he is sentenced to death for a crime?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Claudia's reputation compromised, and how does she prove her chastity?

2. What does Christine mention about rape, and how does Rectitude respond?

3. What does Marcius say when his mother, Veturia, begs him to make peace with the Romans?

4. How does Curia save her husband from exile and death?

5. Why does Rectitude argue for the education of females?

6. How does Marquis Saluzzo test Griselda's constancy?

7. What question does Christine ask that causes Rectitude to offer Julia, Pompey's wife, as an example to refute the claim?

8. How does Artemisia honor her husband in death?

9. What happens when Rectitude finishes her portion of the City of Ladies?

10. What does Rectitude say to Christine's claim that the majority of women are not virtuous?

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