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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. How would a noblewoman respond to compliments from a nobleman?
(a) She would rebuff him.
(b) She would be embarrassed but flattered.
(c) She would feel offended.
(d) She would be appreciative.

2. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?
(a) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.
(b) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.
(c) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(d) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?
(a) Riches.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Good character.

4. 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.

5. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?
(a) Good character.
(b) Riches.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Ready speech.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?

4. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?

5. 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?

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