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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. 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?
(a) In the middle of the conversation.
(b) At the end of the conversation.
(c) Early in the conversation.
(d) Before the conversation really begins.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Walter?

2. 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?

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

4. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?

5. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?

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