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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. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The second stage.
(b) The third stage.
(c) The first stage.
(d) The fourth stage.

2. 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 accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(b) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(c) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(d) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
(a) Good character.
(b) Riches.
(c) Ready speech.
(d) Beauty.

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

5. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?
(a) With slight annoyance.
(b) With no resistance.
(c) With some resistance.
(d) With giggles and sometimes blushing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?

2. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?

3. In the dialogue between the nobleman and the noblewoman, how was the nobleman advised to respond when the noblewoman admitted that enjoying love was great and rejecting it was harmful, and though she was afraid of love's burdens, she had an interest in it?

4. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?

5. 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?

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