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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. Who was Walter?
(a) A good friend of the author.
(b) The author's real name.
(c) A blind man who could not love because he could not see.
(d) A nobleman who never knew true love.

2. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?
(a) Pure passion.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Lustful thoughts.
(d) Innate suffering.

3. 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 remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(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.

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the second stage?
(a) Whole person.
(b) Hope.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Embrace.

5. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Speaking words of love to those they love.
(b) Having physical contact with those they love.
(c) Catching a glimpse of those they love.
(d) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the first stage?

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