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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 makes peasants of all who love.
(b) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(c) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(d) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.

2. 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) Excess passion causes men to fall in love too easily.
(c) Some men are too passionate to ever truly be loved.
(d) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.

3. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?
(a) Each other.
(b) Only happy things because love has colored their vision.
(c) Fearful thoughts of rejection.
(d) Lustful thoughts.

4. 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 develops only when a connection is there.
(b) It come directly from God when the moment is right.
(c) It is innate to humans.
(d) It is a figment of the imagination.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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