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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 say about a woman's tendency to commit great sins?
(a) She would only do so as a last resort.
(b) She does so with pleasure.
(c) She does so without fear.
(d) She is too virtuous to commit great sins.

2. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?
(a) Too much flattery.
(b) Too much desire.
(c) Bad appearances.
(d) Embarrassing the other.

3. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?
(a) It is innate to humans.
(b) It develops only when a connection is there.
(c) It is a figment of the imagination.
(d) It come directly from God when the moment is right.

4. How would a noblewoman respond to compliments from a nobleman?
(a) She would rebuff him.
(b) She would be appreciative.
(c) She would be embarrassed but flattered.
(d) She would feel offended.

5. 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 jealous of his lover.
(b) He was testing his lover.
(c) He was in love with another woman.
(d) He was punishing his lover cruelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man and a woman, both of higher nobility interacted, how did the author advise the man to speak to the woman?

2. According to the author, what can money not buy?

3. What does blasphemy against God do to love?

4. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?

5. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?

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