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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 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it was painful for the giver to give.
(b) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(c) If it is given freely.
(d) If the giver is in love, as well.

2. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
(a) Only the youthful can truly enjoy love.
(b) Only the mature can truly enjoy love.
(c) Love knows no age.
(d) Some are too old and some are too young for love.

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

4. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?
(a) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.
(b) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(c) The goodness of his character.
(d) The importance of his social ranking.

5. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?
(a) With insistant words of praise.
(b) With another joke or funny story.
(c) With a bit more kind-hearted teasing.
(d) With more gentle leading.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?

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

5. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?

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