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

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

3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Age, either too young or too old.
(b) Someone with excess passion.
(c) Beauty or excellent talk.
(d) Riches and promiscuity.

4. 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 use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(b) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(c) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(d) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.

5. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?
(a) With insistant words of praise.
(b) With a bit more kind-hearted teasing.
(c) With another joke or funny story.
(d) With more gentle leading.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the fourth stage?

3. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

5. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?

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