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

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 should ignore her intelligence and focus on her beauty.
(d) He must prove that he is as smart, or smarter, than she.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

2. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?

3. The word "love" is derived from what word?

4. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?

5. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?

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