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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 did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Beauty or excellent talk.
(b) Age, either too young or too old.
(c) Someone with excess passion.
(d) Riches and promiscuity.

2. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
(a) He can be seen as handsome by someone who loves him.
(b) He cannot love in return.
(c) He will never truly be loved.
(d) He truly becomes handsome when he is loved.

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

4. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman and began a conversation appropriately, what was the nobleman to tell the noblewoman it was difficult to restrain himself from doing?
(a) Showering her with gifts.
(b) Embracing her.
(c) Kissing her.
(d) Praising her excessively.

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

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. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?

3. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

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

5. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

(see the answer key)

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