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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?
(a) He was to insist that she decide immediately.
(b) He was to agree to wait.
(c) He was to give her a time limit or appear foolish.
(d) He was to convince her to follow her heart, not her mind.

2. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?
(a) That he is not interested in pursuing her romantically.
(b) That he is of a higher class.
(c) That he was raised poorly and lacks good manners.
(d) That he is in love with her.

3. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?
(a) Following orders from superiors.
(b) Showing the world the error of its ways.
(c) Following his own dream to share his knowledge.
(d) Helping a friend in love.

4. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?
(a) Love eliminates greed.
(b) Love is essentially a form of greed.
(c) Love is destroyed by greed.
(d) Love cannot be degraded by greed.

5. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.

6. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?
(a) He must not overly praise her.
(b) He should commend her for her brains as well as her beauty.
(c) He must prove that he is as smart, or smarter, than she.
(d) He should ignore her intelligence and focus on her beauty.

7. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
(a) Excess passion causes men to fall in love too easily.
(b) Some men are too passionate to ever truly be loved.
(c) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.
(d) Excess passion causes men to only feel lust and never feel love.

8. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?
(a) Love embraces it.
(b) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(c) Love withers in homosexuality.
(d) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.

9. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?
(a) She might have been flattered but be suspicious of his actions and intentions.
(b) She might have asked if a woman of good character and humble birth is better than poor character and high birth.
(c) She might have been insulted and informed him that she intended to marry in her own social class and he should do the same.
(d) She might have embarrassed herself by acting too flirty and forward.

10. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?
(a) Weakness.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Cruelty.
(d) Passion.

11. Despite her social rank, how might a middle class man perceive a noblewoman to be?
(a) Unsophisticated.
(b) Boring.
(c) Bad-mannered.
(d) Childish.

12. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?
(a) Appearing foolish.
(b) Boring her.
(c) Being offensive.
(d) Embarrassing himself.

13. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?
(a) Belittling her nobility.
(b) Insulting her intelligence.
(c) Boasting about his nobility.
(d) Praising her too much.

14. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
(a) He can be seen as handsome by someone who loves him.
(b) He cannot love in return.
(c) He will never truly be loved.
(d) He truly becomes handsome when he is loved.

15. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?
(a) Never loving at all.
(b) Never having children.
(c) Losing her nobility.
(d) Choosing the wrong man.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

2. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?

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

4. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?

5. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

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