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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. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?
(a) He must rebuff her again and again.
(b) He must ask her what he must do to win her heart.
(c) He must take it as a cue to take the upper hand and deal with her firmly.
(d) He must thank her for her time and end the conversation.

2. What did the author advise a woman to do if her man was unfaithful?
(a) Express her anger so that love will increase.
(b) Even the score by being unfaithful.
(c) Improve herself to make him stay.
(d) Abandon him.

3. Though God did not ban a man of the clergy from courtly love, what did God ban him from?
(a) Marrying someone too young.
(b) Marrying someone who was not a believer.
(c) Flattery.
(d) The flesh.

4. In the conversation between the higher nobleman and the higher noblewoman, while she remained deeply skeptical and expressed a lack of interest, what did the man do?
(a) He mirrored her emotions.
(b) He reminded her of his social ranking.
(c) He became more intense.
(d) He sought the love of another woman.

5. What accusation about the clergyman nobleman's interest in love did the higher noblewoman make?
(a) That it was false.
(b) That it was based on passion.
(c) That he could never truly give himself to her.
(d) That he would always love God more.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author explain as a negative effect of marriage?

2. 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?

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

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility, of what did he argue that her resistance was an indicator?

5. How did the author advise to best increase desire after love has been consummated?

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