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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) He should never discuss social ranking with her at all.
(b) He should ignore it.
(c) He should hide the truth from her.
(d) He should acknowledge it.

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

3. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) To capture.
(b) Of great purity.
(c) A gift.
(d) To seize.

4. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(b) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.
(c) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(d) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.

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

6. For what reason would a nobleman claim that he would be willing to marry below his class?
(a) Great beauty.
(b) Godliness.
(c) Good character.
(d) Kindness.

7. What did the author suggest that a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman?
(a) Lead her.
(b) Flatter her.
(c) Amuse her.
(d) Amaze her.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?

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

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. The nobleman explained to the noblewoman he pursued that the real danger she should fear lay in what?

5. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

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