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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. In military terms, the author says, to seduce is to make _____ strategy.

2. How did Genji's attention to details make his younger conquest feel?

3. What qualities does the author say men possess that can be a double-edged matter for women?

4. What does the author suggest one do to take advantage of the mood and needs of the seducee?

5. What is the primary focus during the "proving phase", discussed in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mathilde from Chapter 9, "Lead Astray-Creating Pleasure and Confusion".

2. How does the journalist seduce in her interview with the Shah of Iran in Chapter 20?

3. What does the author say makes a great illusion?

4. Describe the infantile regression discussed in Chapter 17, "Effect a Regression".

5. What does the author say one should do after having seduced someone?

6. What is the victim strategy discussed in Chapter 13?

7. How does Casanova respond to a father sending his daughter away, as described in Chapter 9, "Lead Astray-Creating Pleasure and Confusion"?

8. What does the author say is the benefit of knowing your target?

9. What drama does the author describe is involved in using spiritual lures?

10. Why does the author say Errol Flynn succeeds at seducing Nora Eddington?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What type of people are used as examples in the book? How does the author play on the readers' sense of being in the world? How does the author seduce readers?

Essay Topic 2

Why are archetypes used in The Art of Seduction? What do archetypes teach about human behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the author suggest that reality has no place in seduction? How does combining a fact with some element of fantasy keeps the deception going?

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