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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. Despite her social rank, how might a middle class man perceive a noblewoman to be?
(a) Childish.
(b) Unsophisticated.
(c) Boring.
(d) Bad-mannered.

2. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?
(a) He should be humble and lay out all of his faults, asking her for mercy.
(b) He should tell her about his good qualities and that they make him worthy of a higher ranking.
(c) He should proudly inform her that he represents the best of the middle class and win her respect.
(d) He should avoid all talk of social ranking so that she does not discover the truth about him until she is in love.

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Riches.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Good character.

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what did the man insist was a great good?
(a) Love between a man and a woman.
(b) Self-acceptance.
(c) Love of someone from a lower class.
(d) The respect of peers.

5. What advice about making a love known to the public did the author provide to men?
(a) They should make it known that they are taken, but not by whom.
(b) They should share their love openly with the public.
(c) They should keep love very secret and never tell anyone during early courtship.
(d) They should avoid letting it be publicly known.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?

2. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?

3. 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?

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?

5. Throughout the conversation, the woman spoke repeatedly about the costs of love. Of what did the man speak repeatedly?

(see the answer key)

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