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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does blasphemy against God do to love?
(a) Decreases it.
(b) Stalls it.
(c) Destroys it.
(d) Curses it.

2. What is one way a man might lose love?
(a) Becoming angry.
(b) Appearing uncultured.
(c) Acting too noble.
(d) Becoming jealous.

3. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?
(a) If it could be done in the courtly fashion.
(b) If God would approve.
(c) If it doomed the chance to have a future with either woman.
(d) If it would tarnish his nobility.

4. Up until the beginning of Chapters 7-12, which class, often considered the most noble, was unmentioned?
(a) The nobility.
(b) The Royal Family.
(c) The clergy.
(d) The serfs.

5. What is it that the author told Walter is hard to love?
(a) Things that are counterfeit.
(b) Things too easy to attain.
(c) Things that rob you of your spirit.
(d) Things that will not love you back.

6. What advice about making a love known to the public did the author provide to men?
(a) They should keep love very secret and never tell anyone during early courtship.
(b) They should share their love openly with the public.
(c) They should make it known that they are taken, but not by whom.
(d) They should avoid letting it be publicly known.

7. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what was the man advised to avoid?
(a) Saying anything that would ridicule himself in her eyes.
(b) Insisting that his rank was more prestigious than hers.
(c) Praising her excessively.
(d) Embarrassing her.

8. What did the author identify as a sure way to decrease love?
(a) Being together too much.
(b) Expressing anger.
(c) Seeing each other too rarely.
(d) Developing feelings of jealousy.

9. What did the author say greedy women do to men?
(a) Turn them into shadows of themselves.
(b) Breed greed in their own hearts.
(c) Make them better men by breaking them down first.
(d) Bleed them dry and leave them.

10. Though God did not ban a man of the clergy from courtly love, what did God ban him from?
(a) Marrying someone too young.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Marrying someone who was not a believer.
(d) The flesh.

11. In the author's reviews of decisions in love cases, what was the outcome of the case in which a lady forbade a man to love another and enforced a very severe punishment?
(a) The Queen of Eleanor forbade the two to see eachother again.
(b) The Countess of Champage said she was within her rights.
(c) The Countess of Champagne said she was too severe.
(d) The Queen of Eleanor told them to forget their past and move forward with love and equality.

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

13. In Chapter 8, the story of the Briton, the gauntlet and the rules of love written by the King of Love concerned how many rules?
(a) 55.
(b) 7.
(c) 101.
(d) 31.

14. What did the man of the clergy admit about love with a woman?
(a) That it was risky.
(b) That she would never be worthy.
(c) That it could ruin their lives.
(d) That it was forbidden.

15. What did the author advise a woman to do when she has loved a man who was unworthy of her?
(a) Lower her own standards and embrace love.
(b) Realize her mistake and end things quickly.
(c) Improve him or give up.
(d) Seek the counsel of the clergy for direction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were nuns advised to fiercely avoid love?

2. How did the author advise to best increase desire after love has been consummated?

3. How did the noblewoman imagine the two women might feel about being loved at the same time by a man?

4. What might indicate that love has returned?

5. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility, of what did he argue that her resistance was an indicator?

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