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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. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?
(a) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(b) Love embraces it.
(c) Love withers in homosexuality.
(d) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.

2. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(c) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.

3. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?
(a) Pure passion.
(b) Lustful thoughts.
(c) Harmony.
(d) Innate suffering.

4. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(b) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(c) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.
(d) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

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?

3. The word "love" is derived from what word?

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

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

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