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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. If a nobleman wished to select a middle class woman, what was his best course of action to woo her?
(a) Loving gazes.
(b) Special speech.
(c) Acts of love.
(d) Small gifts.

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 truly becomes handsome when he is loved.
(d) He will never truly be loved.

3. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?
(a) Beauty, good character and ready speech.
(b) Ready speech, riches and good character.
(c) Beauty, kindness and generosity toward expressed needs.
(d) Riches, beauty and good character.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman and began a conversation appropriately, what was the nobleman to tell the noblewoman it was difficult to restrain himself from doing?

2. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?

3. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?

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. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

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