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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three, The Rejection of Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to men's bodies because of love?
(a) They are strengthened in spirit but the body becomes weak.
(b) They are strengthened in body and become warriors.
(c) They are weakened in body but strengthened in mind.
(d) They are weakened and become worse soldiers.

2. In the conversation between the higher nobleman and the higher noblewoman, while she remained deeply skeptical and expressed a lack of interest, what did the man do?
(a) He reminded her of his social ranking.
(b) He became more intense.
(c) He sought the love of another woman.
(d) He mirrored her emotions.

3. A member of the most noble class was called what?
(a) Highness.
(b) Clerk.
(c) Master.
(d) Regency.

4. What did the author say greedy women do to men?
(a) Bleed them dry and leave them.
(b) Breed greed in their own hearts.
(c) Turn them into shadows of themselves.
(d) Make them better men by breaking them down first.

5. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what was the man advised to avoid?
(a) Praising her excessively.
(b) Saying anything that would ridicule himself in her eyes.
(c) Insisting that his rank was more prestigious than hers.
(d) Embarrassing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author refer to as "the nurse of love"?

2. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?

3. What does love do to the appetite for food and drink?

4. In situations of love in which two women compete for one man, how did the author expect the women to regard each other?

5. What power over marriages that God ordained does love have?

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