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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 connection between love and greed?
(a) Love cannot be degraded by greed.
(b) Love is destroyed by greed.
(c) Love eliminates greed.
(d) Love is essentially a form of greed.

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?
(a) Embrace.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Hope.
(d) Whole person.

3. The word "love" is derived from what word?
(a) Hook.
(b) Steal.
(c) Give.
(d) Amor.

4. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?
(a) If it doomed the chance to have a future with either woman.
(b) If it could be done in the courtly fashion.
(c) If God would approve.
(d) If it would tarnish his nobility.

5. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Speaking words of love to those they love.
(b) Having physical contact with those they love.
(c) Catching a glimpse of those they love.
(d) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

2. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?

3. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what did the woman encourage the man to seek?

4. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?

5. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?

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