This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Introduction to the Treatise on Love, Chapter 6, Dialogues 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?
(a) With more gentle leading.
(b) With a bit more kind-hearted teasing.
(c) With insistant words of praise.
(d) With another joke or funny story.

2. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?
(a) He should pretend to be of a higher class until she gets to know him.
(b) He should tell her that love transcends social class.
(c) He should acknowledge that he is undeserving of her and beg for her favor.
(d) He should avoid the issue of social class and focus only on flattering her with praise.

3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Beauty or excellent talk.
(b) Age, either too young or too old.
(c) Someone with excess passion.
(d) Riches and promiscuity.

4. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?
(a) He must ask her what he must do to win her heart.
(b) He must thank her for her time and end the conversation.
(c) He must rebuff her again and again.
(d) He must take it as a cue to take the upper hand and deal with her firmly.

5. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
(a) She would admire his tenacity.
(b) She would degrade them.
(c) She would be flattered.
(d) She would insist on proof.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?

4. Who was Walter?

5. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?

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