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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. How did the author advise to best increase desire after love has been consummated?
(a) See each other only in public.
(b) See each other every moment possible.
(c) See each other rarely.
(d) See each other only at their very best.

2. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?
(a) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.
(b) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(c) The goodness of his character.
(d) The importance of his social ranking.

3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Someone with excess passion.
(b) Riches and promiscuity.
(c) Beauty or excellent talk.
(d) Age, either too young or too old.

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

5. What class of person did the author liken to horses and mules?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Middle class.
(d) Peasants.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the second stage?

2. The nobleman explained to the noblewoman he pursued that the real danger she should fear lay in what?

3. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?

4. When a man and a woman, both of higher nobility interacted, how did the author advise the man to speak to the woman?

5. What might indicate that love has returned?

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