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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 makes homosexuality impossible.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(d) Nature forbids homosexuality.

2. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?
(a) Giving into the power of the goddess of love.
(b) Tarnishing her reputation.
(c) Becoming careless and silly because of love.
(d) Belittling her nobility.

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

4. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?
(a) He believed that love has no boundaries, but religion can interfere with true love.
(b) He believed that love between two men was an abomination, but love between two women was acceptable.
(c) He believed that love could only exist between a man and a woman.
(d) He believed that love between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable

5. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?
(a) Protection from harm.
(b) Nobility.
(c) Good character.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

4. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?

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

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