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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, Chapter 6, Dialogues 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(c) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(d) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.

2. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?
(a) Good character.
(b) Steel.
(c) Foolishness.
(d) Bravery.

3. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The third stage.
(b) The second stage.
(c) The first stage.
(d) The fourth stage.

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the first stage?
(a) Whole person.
(b) Hope.
(c) Kiss.
(d) Embrace.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?

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

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

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