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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 truly becomes handsome when he is loved.
(c) He cannot love in return.
(d) He will never truly be loved.

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

3. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?
(a) Good character.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Protection from harm.
(d) Nobility.

4. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(b) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(c) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(d) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.

5. 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?
(a) With giggles and sometimes blushing.
(b) With no resistance.
(c) With slight annoyance.
(d) With some resistance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?

3. Who was Walter?

4. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?

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

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