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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. 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) Praising her excessively.
(b) Showering her with gifts.
(c) Kissing her.
(d) Embracing her.

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

3. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?
(a) Never having children.
(b) Losing her nobility.
(c) Choosing the wrong man.
(d) Never loving at all.

4. Who was Walter?
(a) A nobleman who never knew true love.
(b) The author's real name.
(c) A good friend of the author.
(d) A blind man who could not love because he could not see.

5. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?
(a) That he would lose social ranking entirely.
(b) That he would greatly improve his social standing.
(c) That he might belittle his nobility.
(d) That he might slightly improve his social ranking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, to what age group does a woman's ideal man belong?

3. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?

5. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?

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