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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Excess passion causes men to only feel lust and never feel love.
(d) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.

2. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?
(a) Riches, beauty and good character.
(b) Beauty, good character and ready speech.
(c) Ready speech, riches and good character.
(d) Beauty, kindness and generosity toward expressed needs.

3. 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 proudly inform her that he represents the best of the middle class and win her respect.
(c) He should be humble and lay out all of his faults, asking her for mercy.
(d) He should avoid all talk of social ranking so that she does not discover the truth about him until she is in love.

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

5. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?
(a) With humble apology.
(b) With concern.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With mock annoyance.

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

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

8. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?
(a) Good character.
(b) Foolishness.
(c) Steel.
(d) Bravery.

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

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

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

12. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?
(a) It is innate to humans.
(b) It is a figment of the imagination.
(c) It come directly from God when the moment is right.
(d) It develops only when a connection is there.

13. 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.

14. 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 kept private.
(b) Private love affairs are considered adultery.
(c) Love affairs should be made public.
(d) Public love affairs are doomed for failure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?

2. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

3. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the second stage?

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