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

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

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

4. Why does Marquis Saluzzo apologize to his wife?
(a) Because she threatens to leave him for another man.
(b) Because he is convinced of her fidelity and constancy.
(c) He does not apologize to his wife.
(d) Because she tries to kill him.

5. Why does Marquis Saluzzo pretend to kill the children his wife bares him?
(a) He does not.
(b) As a practical joke.
(c) To test her constancy.
(d) Because he wants her to leave him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ghismonda do when her father kills her lover?

2. What does Sulpicia do when her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, is exiled?

3. How does Marquis Saluzzo's wife react to his claim that he must kill their children to appease his barons?

4. Who lives a chaste widowhood after Emperor Nero kills her husband, Drusus Tiberius?

5. When the emperor locks Martina in his temple, what does he find her doing when he returns?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do the wives of the knights who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece save their husbands?

3. Why does Rectitude resent the claim that women bring only evil to the world?

4. How does Artemisia honor her husband in death?

5. What results from Thisbe's mother's disapproval of Thisbe's love for Pyramus?

6. What does Rectitude say to the idea that women are avaricious?

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

8. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

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

10. Who is Ulysses's wife, and why does Rectitude praise her?

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