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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, Dialogues 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 come directly from God when the moment is right.
(d) It is a figment of the imagination.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
(a) Some men are too passionate to ever truly be loved.
(b) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.
(c) Excess passion causes men to fall in love too easily.
(d) Excess passion causes men to only feel lust and never feel love.

5. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?
(a) Lustful thoughts.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Innate suffering.
(d) Pure passion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?

3. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

4. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

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

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