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

2. 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 develops only when a connection is there.
(c) It is innate to humans.
(d) It come directly from God when the moment is right.

3. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?
(a) Helping a friend in love.
(b) Following orders from superiors.
(c) Showing the world the error of its ways.
(d) Following his own dream to share his knowledge.

4. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) A gift.
(b) To seize.
(c) To capture.
(d) Of great purity.

5. The word "love" is derived from what word?
(a) Give.
(b) Steal.
(c) Amor.
(d) Hook.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?

3. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

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

5. Who was Walter?

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