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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, How Love May Be Retained, Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to desire if one lover expresses anger toward the other?
(a) It decreases.
(b) It stays the same.
(c) It increases.
(d) It matures.

2. 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) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(c) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.
(d) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.

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

4. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?
(a) He should commend her for her brains as well as her beauty.
(b) He must prove that he is as smart, or smarter, than she.
(c) He must not overly praise her.
(d) He should ignore her intelligence and focus on her beauty.

5. What is it that the author told Walter is hard to love?
(a) Things too easy to attain.
(b) Things that rob you of your spirit.
(c) Things that will not love you back.
(d) Things that are counterfeit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?

3. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?

4. Which of the two lovers, if any, did the higher noblewoman think a man should give up?

5. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?

(see the answer key)

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