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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 explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(b) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(c) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(d) Love can make anyone a nobleman.

2. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.
(b) Having physical contact with those they love.
(c) Speaking words of love to those they love.
(d) Catching a glimpse of those they love.

3. How did the higher noblewoman respond to the the nobleman's question about loving two women at the same time?
(a) The lover must release both women and remain chaste.
(b) The lover must choose one or risk losing both.
(c) The lover must keep chaste for the beloved.
(d) The lover must seek God's guidance.

4. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?
(a) Passion.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Cruelty.

5. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?
(a) Insulting her intelligence.
(b) Belittling her nobility.
(c) Boasting about his nobility.
(d) Praising her too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?

2. Who was Walter?

3. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?

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

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

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