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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(c) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.
(d) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.

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

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

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

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

8. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?
(a) That he might slightly improve his social ranking.
(b) That he would greatly improve his social standing.
(c) That he might belittle his nobility.
(d) That he would lose social ranking entirely.

9. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?
(a) Cherish it.
(b) Accept it.
(c) Seek it out.
(d) Avoid it.

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. 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) The goodness of his character.
(c) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(d) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?

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

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

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

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