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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. Who was Walter?
(a) A blind man who could not love because he could not see.
(b) A good friend of the author.
(c) A nobleman who never knew true love.
(d) The author's real name.

2. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?
(a) Ready speech, riches and good character.
(b) Riches, beauty and good character.
(c) Beauty, good character and ready speech.
(d) Beauty, kindness and generosity toward expressed needs.

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Ready speech.
(c) Good character.
(d) Riches.

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

5. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?
(a) Good character.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Protection from harm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?

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

3. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

4. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?

5. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?

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