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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. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(b) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(c) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(d) Love can make anyone a nobleman.

2. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?
(a) He must not overly praise her.
(b) He should commend her for her brains as well as her beauty.
(c) He must prove that he is as smart, or smarter, than she.
(d) He should ignore her intelligence and focus on her beauty.

3. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?
(a) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.
(b) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(c) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(d) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.

4. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?
(a) The man greeted the woman normally and the woman made conversation naturally.
(b) The man greeted the woman normally, but only because she was with another female.
(c) The man waited for permission to approach the woman, greeting her with reverence and made conversation.
(d) The woman initiated the greeting but allowed the man to make conversation.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?

3. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

4. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?

5. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?

(see the answer key)

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