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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. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?
(a) Ready speech.
(b) Good character.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Riches.

2. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.
(b) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.

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

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

5. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it is given freely.
(b) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(c) If the giver is in love, as well.
(d) If it was painful for the giver to give.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?

5. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?

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