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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. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
(a) Love knows no age.
(b) Only the youthful can truly enjoy love.
(c) Only the mature can truly enjoy love.
(d) Some are too old and some are too young for love.

2. Up until the beginning of Chapters 7-12, which class, often considered the most noble, was unmentioned?
(a) The Royal Family.
(b) The nobility.
(c) The serfs.
(d) The clergy.

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

4. What type of women who are hard to love did the author provide as an example to Walter?
(a) Women who rejected God.
(b) Women who gave into carnal passion easily.
(c) Women who were too greedy.
(d) Women who loved in a counterfeit way.

5. When the author wrote about how to behave when one fell in love with a peasant, what is it believed that he was suggesting?
(a) Counterfeit love.
(b) Lust.
(c) Rape.
(d) Carnal passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a middle class woman was being pursued by a nobleman, what might she say to rebuff his advances?

2. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?

3. For what reason would a nobleman claim that he would be willing to marry below his class?

4. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about how to deal with a current love affair?

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

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