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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. What happens when love starts to decline?
(a) It can end quickly.
(b) Blasphemy against God increases.
(c) Feelings of jealousy increase.
(d) It dies a slow death.

2. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?
(a) Adventure.
(b) Cruelty.
(c) Passion.
(d) Weakness.

3. 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) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.
(b) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.
(c) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(d) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.

4. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?
(a) Boring her.
(b) Embarrassing himself.
(c) Being offensive.
(d) Appearing foolish.

5. What does blasphemy against God do to love?
(a) Stalls it.
(b) Destroys it.
(c) Curses it.
(d) Decreases it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What accusation about the clergyman nobleman's interest in love did the higher noblewoman make?

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. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?

5. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

(see the answer key)

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