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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. 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) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.
(b) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(c) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(d) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.

2. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If the giver is in love, as well.
(b) If it is given freely.
(c) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(d) If it was painful for the giver to give.

3. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(b) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.
(c) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(d) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.

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

5. 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 use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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