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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 did the author identify as a sure way to decrease love?
(a) Developing feelings of jealousy.
(b) Expressing anger.
(c) Seeing each other too rarely.
(d) Being together too much.

2. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?
(a) If it doomed the chance to have a future with either woman.
(b) If it could be done in the courtly fashion.
(c) If it would tarnish his nobility.
(d) If God would approve.

3. When a man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what type of flattery did the man use with the woman?
(a) Very extended and flowery.
(b) Personal and specific.
(c) Respectful and formal.
(d) Rather brief.

4. What did the author say about the good that comes to men through love besides love itself?
(a) Love itself is likely the only good.
(b) Love itself cannot exists alongside other good things.
(c) Love brings with it an abundance of good things.
(d) Love destroys all good and replaces it.

5. If the beloved wanted something unreasonable, what did the author advise to do?
(a) Use it as a tool to acquire more affection.
(b) Give it to her.
(c) Lovingly tease her about her foolishness do not give in.
(d) Be abrupt and clear and refuse to give it to her.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happens when love starts to decline?

4. What happens to desire if one lover expresses anger toward the other?

5. In Chapter 8, the story of the Briton, the gauntlet and the rules of love written by the King of Love concerned how many rules?

(see the answer key)

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