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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. If a middle class woman was being pursued by a nobleman, what might she say to rebuff his advances?
(a) That she should wait for a middle class man of good character.
(b) That he should find a suitable woman from his own class.
(c) That she was not worthy of his attention.
(d) That she suspected he was not good enough, even for her.

2. A member of the most noble class was called what?
(a) Regency.
(b) Clerk.
(c) Highness.
(d) Master.

3. 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?
(a) He was jealous of his lover.
(b) He was testing his lover.
(c) He was in love with another woman.
(d) He was punishing his lover cruelly.

4. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?
(a) He believed that love could only exist between a man and a woman.
(b) He believed that love has no boundaries, but religion can interfere with true love.
(c) He believed that love between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable
(d) He believed that love between two men was an abomination, but love between two women was acceptable.

5. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If the giver is in love, as well.
(b) If it is given freely.
(c) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(d) If it was painful for the giver to give.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

2. What did the author say greedy women do to men?

3. In the conversation between the higher nobleman and the higher noblewoman, while she remained deeply skeptical and expressed a lack of interest, what did the man do?

4. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

5. For the group advised to fiercely avoid love, what was one who sought their love considered to be?

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