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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Introduction to the Treatise on Love, Chapter 6, Dialogue 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(b) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(c) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(d) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.

2. What did the man of the clergy admit about love with a woman?
(a) That it was forbidden.
(b) That she would never be worthy.
(c) That it was risky.
(d) That it could ruin their lives.

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

4. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?
(a) Private love affairs are considered adultery.
(b) Love affairs should be made public.
(c) Love affairs should be kept private.
(d) Public love affairs are doomed for failure.

5. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman and began a conversation appropriately, what was the nobleman to tell the noblewoman it was difficult to restrain himself from doing?
(a) Showering her with gifts.
(b) Kissing her.
(c) Praising her excessively.
(d) Embracing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

2. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?

3. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what did the man insist was a great good?

5. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?

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