View a FREE sample

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. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Ready speech.
(c) Riches.
(d) Good character.

2. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
(a) He can be seen as handsome by someone who loves him.
(b) He cannot love in return.
(c) He will never truly be loved.
(d) He truly becomes handsome when he is loved.

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

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

5. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(b) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(c) No passion is purer than theirs.
(d) No suffering is greater than theirs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 421 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample