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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 middle class woman was being pursued by a nobleman, what might she say to rebuff his advances?
(a) That he should find a suitable woman from his own class.
(b) That she suspected he was not good enough, even for her.
(c) That she was not worthy of his attention.
(d) That she should wait for a middle class man of good character.

2. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?
(a) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(b) Love embraces it.
(c) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.
(d) Love withers in homosexuality.

3. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) A gift.
(b) To capture.
(c) To seize.
(d) Of great purity.

4. 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 use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(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 remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, to what age group does a woman's ideal man belong?
(a) At least twice her age.
(b) Young.
(c) Middle-aged.
(d) Her own age group.

Short Answer Questions

1. During a conversation between a nobleman and a noblewoman, what was she to give permission for him to do?

2. The nobleman explained to the noblewoman he pursued that the real danger she should fear lay in what?

3. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?

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

5. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?

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