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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. The word "love" is derived from what word?
(a) Steal.
(b) Hook.
(c) Amor.
(d) Give.

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

3. What did the author suggest that a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman?
(a) Flatter her.
(b) Lead her.
(c) Amaze her.
(d) Amuse her.

4. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(b) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.
(c) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(d) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.

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) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(c) No suffering is greater than theirs.
(d) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?

2. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?

3. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?

4. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

5. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

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