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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 love and greed?
(a) Love cannot be degraded by greed.
(b) Love eliminates greed.
(c) Love is destroyed by greed.
(d) Love is essentially a form of greed.

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

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

4. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
(a) Riches.
(b) Ready speech.
(c) Good character.
(d) Beauty.

5. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(b) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?

3. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?

4. 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?

5. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?

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