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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. What is the worst possible thing imaginable for chaste women?

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

3. Who honors her husband in death by building a magnificent sepulcher to him?

4. Who is denounced by two old priests when they fail in their attempt to make her sin?

5. Who are foolish to ignore their wives' advice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Judith save the Jews from Holofernes?

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

9. Describe Saint Catherine's martyrdom.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Christine actually believe what she has read about women? Explain your position.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How does Christine change throughout the novel? Detail the changes she makes and the reasons behind those changes.

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