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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?
(a) The man waited for permission to approach the woman, greeting her with reverence and made conversation.
(b) The woman initiated the greeting but allowed the man to make conversation.
(c) The man greeted the woman normally and the woman made conversation naturally.
(d) The man greeted the woman normally, but only because she was with another female.

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

3. If a nobleman wished to select a middle class woman, what was his best course of action to woo her?
(a) Loving gazes.
(b) Small gifts.
(c) Special speech.
(d) Acts of love.

4. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Protection from harm.
(c) Nobility.
(d) Good character.

5. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Someone with excess passion.
(b) Age, either too young or too old.
(c) Riches and promiscuity.
(d) Beauty or excellent talk.

6. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?
(a) At the end of the conversation.
(b) Early in the conversation.
(c) Before the conversation really begins.
(d) In the middle of the conversation.

7. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?
(a) With insistant words of praise.
(b) With more gentle leading.
(c) With another joke or funny story.
(d) With a bit more kind-hearted teasing.

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

9. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?
(a) A glimpse of the one he loves.
(b) The chance to speak with the one he loves.
(c) The embrace of the one he loves.
(d) The thought of the one he loves.

10. 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 give her a time limit or appear foolish.
(b) He was to insist that she decide immediately.
(c) He was to convince her to follow her heart, not her mind.
(d) He was to agree to wait.

11. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?
(a) He must thank her for her time and end the conversation.
(b) He must take it as a cue to take the upper hand and deal with her firmly.
(c) He must rebuff her again and again.
(d) He must ask her what he must do to win her heart.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The word "love" is derived from what word?

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

3. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?

4. During a conversation between a nobleman and a noblewoman, what was she to give permission for him to do?

5. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?

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