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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. According to the rules of love, what one characteristic alone can make any man worthy of love?
(a) Devotion to God.
(b) Good character.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Kindness.

2. 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 accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(b) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(c) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(d) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.

3. 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?
(a) It is a figment of the imagination.
(b) It is innate to humans.
(c) It develops only when a connection is there.
(d) It come directly from God when the moment is right.

4. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?
(a) That he is in love with her.
(b) That he is not interested in pursuing her romantically.
(c) That he is of a higher class.
(d) That he was raised poorly and lacks good manners.

5. To what was a member of the most noble class to devote himself?
(a) To God.
(b) To love.
(c) To knowledge.
(d) To peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a nobleman wished to select a middle class woman, what was his best course of action to woo her?

2. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

3. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?

4. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?

5. In the author's reviews of decisions in love cases, what was the reason in the second case that a man asked his lover if he could embrace another woman?

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