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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 connection between blindness and love?
(a) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.
(b) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(c) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(d) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.

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

3. 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) Cruelty.
(d) Weakness.

4. Which of the two lovers, if any, did the higher noblewoman think a man should give up?
(a) The first.
(b) The second.
(c) Both.
(d) Neither.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did the author say that greedy women love?

2. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?

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

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

5. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

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