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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 does love do to sleep and rest?
(a) There is no effect.
(b) It takes them away.
(c) It makes them more enjoyable.
(d) They become unnecessary.

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 testing his lover.
(d) He was jealous of his lover.

3. Who is the author of false love?
(a) The Devil.
(b) The Church.
(c) The greedy woman.
(d) The lustful soul.

4. The author described women as greedy and slaves to their passions, especially what?
(a) Sex.
(b) Food.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Money.

5. In situations of love in which two women compete for one man, how did the author expect the women to regard each other?
(a) With respect.
(b) With anger.
(c) With envy.
(d) With sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How would a member of the most noble class have known which dialogue in the book to consult for advice on love?

2. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?

3. What does blasphemy against God do to love?

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. Love can be dangerous because it can impel men to do what?

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