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

2. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
(a) Only the youthful can truly enjoy love.
(b) Some are too old and some are too young for love.
(c) Love knows no age.
(d) Only the mature can truly enjoy love.

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

4. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
(a) She would degrade them.
(b) She would admire his tenacity.
(c) She would be flattered.
(d) She would insist on proof.

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 more gentle leading.
(b) With insistant words of praise.
(c) With another joke or funny story.
(d) With a bit more kind-hearted teasing.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?

2. 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?

3. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?

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

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

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