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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. For the group advised to fiercely avoid love, what was one who sought their love considered to be?
(a) A hypocrite.
(b) A harlot.
(c) A beast.
(d) A sinner.

2. Why did the woman of higher nobility reprove the nobleman who was a member of the clergy?
(a) He should be satisfied with things of God.
(b) She would never feel worthy of his love.
(c) He should be shamed for pursuing her.
(d) She would be a mockery if she entered into a relationship with him.

3. How should a lover behave toward the beloved to retain love?
(a) With great affection.
(b) With unrestrained passion.
(c) With restraint.
(d) With detachment.

4. What did the author think greedy women should do?
(a) Seek the love of a poor man.
(b) Join a brothel.
(c) Repent.
(d) Find a man equally as greedy to love.

5. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?
(a) If it could be done in the courtly fashion.
(b) If God would approve.
(c) If it would tarnish his nobility.
(d) If it doomed the chance to have a future with either woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?

2. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about how to deal with a current love affair?

3. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?

4. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?

5. What accusation about the clergyman nobleman's interest in love did the higher noblewoman make?

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