Women in the Republic were legally defined as _______.

Roman women in the republican and imperial eras were not allowed to ______ .

While Roman men were away on campaigns, they expected their wives to:

Marriages arranged sine manu granted authority over the bride to her  _______. 

Some Roman writers claimed that Livia _________ Augustus’s closest relatives in order to have her son, Tiberius, become the next emperor.

 According to Hammurabi’s law code, if a wife embarrassed her husband, she could be _______.

Unlike Sumerian and Egyptian women, Assyrian women could not ______ property.             

For the most part, Egyptian women held the ________  rights as men of the ________  social class. (hint: same word belongs in both blanks)  

The author intends that the reader’s reaction to her discussion of the topic will be one of:

The repetition of the sentence: “I have an escape plan suggests that the author is trying to: