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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Introduction to the Treatise on Love, Preface, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(b) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(c) No suffering is greater than theirs.
(d) No passion is purer than theirs.

2. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(b) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(c) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(d) Love makes peasants of all who love.

3. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Catching a glimpse of those they love.
(b) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.
(c) Having physical contact with those they love.
(d) Speaking words of love to those they love.

4. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?
(a) The thought of the one he loves.
(b) The embrace of the one he loves.
(c) The chance to speak with the one he loves.
(d) A glimpse of the one he loves.

5. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
(a) Excess passion causes men to only feel lust and never feel love.
(b) Some men are too passionate to ever truly be loved.
(c) Excess passion causes men to fall in love too easily.
(d) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?

2. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?

3. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?

4. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

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

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