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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it is given freely.
(b) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(c) If the giver is in love, as well.
(d) If it was painful for the giver to give.

2. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The first stage.
(b) The fourth stage.
(c) The third stage.
(d) The second stage.

3. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?
(a) Embrace.
(b) Hope.
(c) Whole person.
(d) Kiss.

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?
(a) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.
(b) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(c) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(d) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.

5. 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.

6. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?
(a) Good character.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Riches.

7. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(b) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(c) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(d) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.

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

9. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?
(a) By informing her that she would be wise to engage in a relationship with him.
(b) By asking her if she found him agreeable.
(c) By begging for her attention and the chance to know her better.
(d) By pointing out how much more noble she is than he.

10. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?
(a) Their levels of desire should always be absolutely identical.
(b) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.
(c) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(d) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.

11. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?
(a) Love affairs should be made public.
(b) Private love affairs are considered adultery.
(c) Public love affairs are doomed for failure.
(d) Love affairs should be kept private.

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

13. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(b) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(c) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(d) Love makes peasants of all who love.

14. If a middle class woman was being pursued by a nobleman, what might she say to rebuff his advances?
(a) That she suspected he was not good enough, even for her.
(b) That she was not worthy of his attention.
(c) That he should find a suitable woman from his own class.
(d) That she should wait for a middle class man of good character.

15. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman and began a conversation appropriately, what was the nobleman to tell the noblewoman it was difficult to restrain himself from doing?
(a) Embracing her.
(b) Showering her with gifts.
(c) Praising her excessively.
(d) Kissing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?

2. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

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

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

5. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

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