Quiz for Viewpoints 15.1: Lauro Quirini and Cassandra Fedele: Women and Humanist Learning

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Correct: The answer is c. Quirini praised Nogarola’s effort to overcome her “own nature” and seek “true virtue.”
Incorrect: The answer is c. Quirini praised Nogarola’s effort to overcome her “own nature” and seek “true virtue.”
1. How did Lauro Quirini characterize Isotta Nogarola’s scholarship?

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Correct: The answer is a. Quirini suggested that Nogarola’s study of “divine matters” should begin with “those disciplines that we call by the Greek term mathematics.”
Incorrect: The answer is a. Quirini suggested that Nogarola’s study of “divine matters” should begin with “those disciplines that we call by the Greek term mathematics.”
2. Which of these did Quirini suggest Nogarola should study?

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Correct: The answer is b. In Fedele’s view, it was self-evident that “it is by reason that man is separated from beasts.”
Incorrect: The answer is b. In Fedele’s view, it was self-evident that “it is by reason that man is separated from beasts.”
3. In Fedele’s view, what separated human beings from animals?

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Correct: The answer is a. Like the ancient Stoics and Epicureans, Fedele believed that knowledge and philosophy could free the mind from pain.
Incorrect: The answer is a. Like the ancient Stoics and Epicureans, Fedele believed that knowledge and philosophy could free the mind from pain.
4. Which of these benefits did Fedele associate with a liberal arts education?

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Correct: The answer is b. Fedele turned to the study of literature as a counterweight to these “lowly and execrable weapons of the little woman.”
Incorrect: The answer is b. Fedele turned to the study of literature as a counterweight to these “lowly and execrable weapons of the little woman.”
5. How did Fedele view the traditional female activities of sewing and spinning?