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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 attraction.
(b) Love's benefits.
(c) Love's deception.
(d) Love's risks.

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

3. What did the author identify as a sure way to decrease love?
(a) Developing feelings of jealousy.
(b) Expressing anger.
(c) Being together too much.
(d) Seeing each other too rarely.

4. What happens to desire if one lover expresses anger toward the other?
(a) It stays the same.
(b) It matures.
(c) It decreases.
(d) It increases.

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. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?

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

3. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?

4. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?

5. What future awaits a woman who stays with a cheating man?

(see the answer key)

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