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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 sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?
(a) That he is in love with her.
(b) That he is of a higher class.
(c) That he was raised poorly and lacks good manners.
(d) That he is not interested in pursuing her romantically.

2. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?
(a) He believed that love between two men was an abomination, but love between two women was acceptable.
(b) He believed that love between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable
(c) He believed that love has no boundaries, but religion can interfere with true love.
(d) He believed that love could only exist between a man and a woman.

3. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?
(a) Their levels of desire should always be absolutely identical.
(b) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(c) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.
(d) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.

4. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?
(a) It develops only when a connection is there.
(b) It is innate to humans.
(c) It is a figment of the imagination.
(d) It come directly from God when the moment is right.

5. When the higher noblewoman made an accusation about the man's interest in love, how did he respond?
(a) Anger.
(b) Amusement.
(c) Denial.
(d) Frustration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the fourth stage?

3. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?

4. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?

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

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