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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. Which of the two lovers, if any, did the higher noblewoman think a man should give up?
(a) Both.
(b) The second.
(c) Neither.
(d) The first.
2. How did the author explain the concept of teaching the theory of love to a social class likened to horses and mules?
(a) It would be unnatural to them and they would never grasp the idea.
(b) It would stir natural desires in them only if they made a conscious effort.
(c) It would stir natural desires because all humans were made to love.
(d) It would be unnatural to them, but they would find it useful.
3. 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) In the middle of the conversation.
(b) Early in the conversation.
(c) At the end of the conversation.
(d) Before the conversation really begins.
4. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it was painful for the giver to give.
(b) If it is given freely.
(c) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(d) If the giver is in love, as well.
5. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(b) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(c) No suffering is greater than theirs.
(d) No passion is purer than theirs.
Short Answer Questions
1. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?
2. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?
3. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?
4. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?
5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, to what age group does a woman's ideal man belong?
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