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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 effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?
(a) View her.
(b) Embrace her.
(c) Touch her.
(d) Flatter her.

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

3. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?
(a) Their levels of desire should always be absolutely identical.
(b) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.
(c) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(d) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.

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

5. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
(a) She would admire his tenacity.
(b) She would be flattered.
(c) She would degrade them.
(d) She would insist on proof.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?

3. 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?

4. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?

5. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?

(see the answer key)

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