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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
(a) She would degrade them.
(b) She would insist on proof.
(c) She would admire his tenacity.
(d) She would be flattered.

3. The word "love" is derived from what word?
(a) Hook.
(b) Steal.
(c) Amor.
(d) Give.

4. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?
(a) He should tell her about his good qualities and that they make him worthy of a higher ranking.
(b) He should be humble and lay out all of his faults, asking her for mercy.
(c) He should proudly inform her that he represents the best of the middle class and win her respect.
(d) He should avoid all talk of social ranking so that she does not discover the truth about him until she is in love.

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

6. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?
(a) Flatter her.
(b) View her.
(c) Touch her.
(d) Embrace her.

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 remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(c) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(d) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.

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

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

10. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?
(a) The importance of his social ranking.
(b) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(c) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.
(d) The goodness of his character.

11. 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) Before the conversation really begins.
(c) Early in the conversation.
(d) In the middle of the conversation.

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

13. Who was Walter?
(a) A good friend of the author.
(b) A blind man who could not love because he could not see.
(c) A nobleman who never knew true love.
(d) The author's real name.

14. 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) Praising her too much.
(c) Insulting her intelligence.
(d) Boasting about his nobility.

15. In the dialogue between the nobleman and the noblewoman, how was the nobleman advised to respond when the noblewoman admitted that enjoying love was great and rejecting it was harmful, and though she was afraid of love's burdens, she had an interest in it?
(a) He should embrace her.
(b) He should be wary of her.
(c) He should thank her.
(d) He should correct her gently.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?

2. 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?

3. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?

4. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?

5. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?

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