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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. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
(a) He can be seen as handsome by someone who loves him.
(b) He cannot love in return.
(c) He will never truly be loved.
(d) He truly becomes handsome when he is loved.

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

3. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
(a) Some are too old and some are too young for love.
(b) Only the mature can truly enjoy love.
(c) Only the youthful can truly enjoy love.
(d) Love knows no age.

4. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(b) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(c) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(d) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.

5. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
(a) Good character.
(b) Ready speech.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Riches.

Short Answer 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?

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

3. 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?

4. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?

5. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?

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