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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. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The third stage.
(b) The second stage.
(c) The first stage.
(d) The fourth stage.

2. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(c) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(d) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.

3. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it was painful for the giver to give.
(b) If it is given freely.
(c) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(d) If the giver is in love, as well.

4. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?
(a) Riches, beauty and good character.
(b) Beauty, kindness and generosity toward expressed needs.
(c) Beauty, good character and ready speech.
(d) Ready speech, riches and good character.

5. When a man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what argument did they have about love?
(a) About its ability to frighten.
(b) About its ability to heal.
(c) About its prudence.
(d) About its deception.

Short Answer Questions

1. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?

2. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?

3. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?

4. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?

5. What did the man of the clergy admit about love with a woman?

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