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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. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.

2. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(b) No suffering is greater than theirs.
(c) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(d) No passion is purer than theirs.

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?
(a) He should correct her gently.
(b) He should thank her.
(c) He should be wary of her.
(d) He should embrace her.

4. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?
(a) With a gift.
(b) With flattery.
(c) With a request for her advice.
(d) With humor.

5. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?
(a) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(b) The goodness of his character.
(c) The importance of his social ranking.
(d) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

4. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?

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

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