View a FREE sample

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 makes lovers feel like royalty.
(c) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(d) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.

2. 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.

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

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 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 between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable

5. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
(a) He cannot love in return.
(b) He truly becomes handsome when he is loved.
(c) He can be seen as handsome by someone who loves him.
(d) He will never truly be loved.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?

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

3. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?

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

5. Who was Walter?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 392 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample