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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. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?
(a) Good character.
(b) Steel.
(c) Foolishness.
(d) Bravery.

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

3. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?
(a) That he is in love with her.
(b) That he was raised poorly and lacks good manners.
(c) That he is not interested in pursuing her romantically.
(d) That he is of a higher class.

4. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?
(a) Tarnishing her reputation.
(b) Giving into the power of the goddess of love.
(c) Belittling her nobility.
(d) Becoming careless and silly because of love.

5. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(c) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(d) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author suggest that a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman?

2. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?

3. 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?

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

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