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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. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) Of great purity.
(b) To seize.
(c) To capture.
(d) A gift.

2. 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?
(a) Early in the conversation.
(b) Before the conversation really begins.
(c) At the end of the conversation.
(d) In the middle of the conversation.

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. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?
(a) By pointing out how much more noble she is than he.
(b) By begging for her attention and the chance to know her better.
(c) By asking her if she found him agreeable.
(d) By informing her that she would be wise to engage in a relationship with him.

5. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) No passion is purer than theirs.
(b) No suffering is greater than theirs.
(c) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(d) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?

2. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

3. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

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

5. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?

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