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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author consider greedy women to be?
(a) Deadly enemies.
(b) God's problems.
(c) Worthy challenges.
(d) Charity cases.

2. How did the higher noblewoman respond to the the nobleman's question about loving two women at the same time?
(a) The lover must seek God's guidance.
(b) The lover must release both women and remain chaste.
(c) The lover must keep chaste for the beloved.
(d) The lover must choose one or risk losing both.

3. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?
(a) Embarrassing the other.
(b) Too much desire.
(c) Too much flattery.
(d) Bad appearances.

4. In what way did the author explain that a certain class was akin to horses and mules?
(a) They were unclean.
(b) They were godless.
(c) They rarely loved.
(d) They were uncivilized.

5. What did the author refer to as "the nurse of love"?
(a) Distance.
(b) Anger.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) Desire.

6. What was the general focus of Book One?
(a) Avoiding the wrong kinds of love.
(b) Convincing others to return love.
(c) The perils of love between social classes.
(d) Acquiring love.

7. To what was a member of the most noble class to devote himself?
(a) To love.
(b) To knowledge.
(c) To God.
(d) To peace.

8. Why were members of the most noble rank advised to consult the dialogues in the book?
(a) They were uneducated.
(b) They were weak to carnal sin.
(c) They were sinful.
(d) They were important but lived in poverty.

9. What type of women who are hard to love did the author provide as an example to Walter?
(a) Women who were too greedy.
(b) Women who rejected God.
(c) Women who gave into carnal passion easily.
(d) Women who loved in a counterfeit way.

10. The author encouraged Walter to find a woman who would love him regardless of what?
(a) His nobility.
(b) His faith in God.
(c) His inability to return love.
(d) His money.

11. What did the author explain as a negative effect of marriage?
(a) It causes people to become resentful.
(b) It puts an end to courtly love.
(c) It prevents people from loving each other.
(d) It makes communication stop.

12. When a man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, why did the woman say she was reluctant to fall in love?
(a) She was a widow.
(b) She is afraid of love.
(c) She was already married.
(d) She was too old.

13. When the author wrote about how to behave when one fell in love with a peasant, what is it believed that he was suggesting?
(a) Rape.
(b) Lust.
(c) Counterfeit love.
(d) Carnal passion.

14. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what did the woman look for a chance to do?
(a) Ridicule him.
(b) Embrace him.
(c) Correct him.
(d) Flatter him.

15. If a greedy woman truly loved her man, what would she be hesitant to do?
(a) Ask so much of him.
(b) Neglect his needs.
(c) Belittle him.
(d) Destroy him.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility and she grew tired of their conversation and insisted that it should end, how did the nobleman respond?

2. What future awaits a woman who stays with a cheating man?

3. A member of the most noble class was called what?

4. What is one way a man might lose love?

5. Throughout the conversation, the woman spoke repeatedly about the costs of love. Of what did the man speak repeatedly?

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