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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. 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) No passion is purer than theirs.
(c) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(d) No suffering is greater than theirs.

2. What is it that the author told Walter is hard to love?
(a) Things too easy to attain.
(b) Things that rob you of your spirit.
(c) Things that will not love you back.
(d) Things that are counterfeit.

3. 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.

4. What does blasphemy against God do to love?
(a) Stalls it.
(b) Destroys it.
(c) Decreases it.
(d) Curses it.

5. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?
(a) Fearful thoughts of rejection.
(b) Each other.
(c) Lustful thoughts.
(d) Only happy things because love has colored their vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?

2. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?

3. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

4. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?

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

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