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

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

3. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?
(a) He believed that love between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable
(b) He believed that love between two men was an abomination, but love between two women was acceptable.
(c) He believed that love has no boundaries, but religion can interfere with true love.
(d) He believed that love could only exist between a man and a woman.

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 be flattered.
(c) She would insist on proof.
(d) She would admire his tenacity.

5. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?
(a) He must ask her what he must do to win her heart.
(b) He must rebuff her again and again.
(c) He must take it as a cue to take the upper hand and deal with her firmly.
(d) He must thank her for her time and end the conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?

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

3. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?

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

5. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

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