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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. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) A gift.
(b) To seize.
(c) To capture.
(d) Of great purity.

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

3. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(b) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.
(c) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.
(d) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.

4. 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 and the woman made conversation naturally.
(b) The man waited for permission to approach the woman, greeting her with reverence and made conversation.
(c) The woman initiated the greeting but allowed the man to make conversation.
(d) The man greeted the woman normally, but only because she was with another female.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?

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

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

4. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?

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

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