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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, How Love May Be Retained, Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?
(a) He should never discuss social ranking with her at all.
(b) He should hide the truth from her.
(c) He should ignore it.
(d) He should acknowledge it.

2. In the author's reviews of decisions in love cases, what was the reason in the second case that a man asked his lover if he could embrace another woman?
(a) He was punishing his lover cruelly.
(b) He was in love with another woman.
(c) He was jealous of his lover.
(d) He was testing his lover.

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

4. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?
(a) Never having children.
(b) Losing her nobility.
(c) Choosing the wrong man.
(d) Never loving at all.

5. In the dialogue between the nobleman and the noblewoman, how was the nobleman advised to respond when the noblewoman admitted that enjoying love was great and rejecting it was harmful, and though she was afraid of love's burdens, she had an interest in it?
(a) He should correct her gently.
(b) He should embrace her.
(c) He should be wary of her.
(d) He should thank her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

2. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

3. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?

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

5. What does blasphemy against God do to love?

(see the answer key)

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