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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who grieves for the remainder of her life after her husband, Socrates, dies?

2. What does Bernabo's wife name herself when she masquerades as a male servant for Senor Ferant?

3. What happens when the emperor tries to force the blessed virgin Martina to worship his idols?

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

5. Who does Saint Lucy of Syracus pray to for her mother's cure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the story about Bernabo and his wife.

3. How is Susanna's chastity questioned and proven?

4. What happens between Saint Lucy and King Aucejas?

5. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

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

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

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

9. How does Rectitude refute the common claim that women are inconstant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the individual functions of Lady Reason, Lady Rectitude, and Lady Justice?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the main themes in this novel and detail its recurrences throughout the novel. What does it add to the novel? How does it affect the difference characters?

Essay Topic 3

How does the first person point-of-view enhance and inhibit the story? How would the novel be different if a different point of view were used?

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