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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 group was advised to fiercely avoid love?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Ministers.
(c) The very poor.
(d) The very wealthy.

2. What did the man of the clergy admit about love with a woman?
(a) That it could ruin their lives.
(b) That she would never be worthy.
(c) That it was risky.
(d) That it was forbidden.

3. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?
(a) Good character.
(b) Foolishness.
(c) Steel.
(d) Bravery.

4. What was a member of the most noble class bound to renounce?
(a) Status and wealth.
(b) God.
(c) Love.
(d) Delights of the earth.

5. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?
(a) Embarrassing himself.
(b) Being offensive.
(c) Appearing foolish.
(d) Boring her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that the author told Walter is hard to love?

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

3. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility, of what did he argue that her resistance was an indicator?

5. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?

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