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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, Chapters 7-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?
(a) Embarrassing the other.
(b) Bad appearances.
(c) Too much desire.
(d) Too much flattery.

2. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?
(a) Early in the conversation.
(b) At the end of the conversation.
(c) In the middle of the conversation.
(d) Before the conversation really begins.

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

4. When a higher nobleman spoke to a middle class woman, how was he advised to begin the conversation?
(a) By complimenting her intelligence.
(b) With flattery.
(c) By telling her immediately that he is interested in her.
(d) By giving her a gift.

5. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what was the man advised to avoid?
(a) Saying anything that would ridicule himself in her eyes.
(b) Insisting that his rank was more prestigious than hers.
(c) Praising her excessively.
(d) Embarrassing her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?

3. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what did the woman encourage the man to seek?

4. According to the author, what can money not buy?

5. Which of the two lovers, if any, did the higher noblewoman think a man should give up?

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