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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, How Love May Be Retained, Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Throughout the conversation, the woman spoke repeatedly about the costs of love. Of what did the man speak repeatedly?
(a) Love's risks.
(b) Love's benefits.
(c) Love's deception.
(d) Love's attraction.

2. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility and she grew tired of their conversation and insisted that it should end, how did the nobleman respond?
(a) That he wanted one last chance to profess his love.
(b) That he knew then that they had no future together.
(c) That he would respect her wishes.
(d) That they had so much more to discuss.

3. What future awaits a woman who stays with a cheating man?
(a) Stronger trust and commitment.
(b) Increased passion.
(c) A sure end to her love.
(d) Endless worry.

4. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?
(a) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(b) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(c) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.
(d) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.

5. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?
(a) He should avoid the issue of social class and focus only on flattering her with praise.
(b) He should tell her that love transcends social class.
(c) He should acknowledge that he is undeserving of her and beg for her favor.
(d) He should pretend to be of a higher class until she gets to know him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the woman, what did being unfaithful damage most?

2. According to the rules of love, what one characteristic alone can make any man worthy of love?

3. What advice about making a love known to the public did the author provide to men?

4. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

5. In the author's reviews of decisions in love cases, what was the outcome of the case in which a lady forbade a man to love another and enforced a very severe punishment?

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