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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?
(a) Love is destroyed by greed.
(b) Love eliminates greed.
(c) Love cannot be degraded by greed.
(d) Love is essentially a form of greed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?

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

4. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?

5. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?

Short Essay Questions

1. In retaining love, give an example of how a man can keep a love from being publicly known.

2. In what ways may love increase after it has been consummated?

3. Explain how the noblewoman would have argued with the nobleman about her fears about love and endangering her, and how the nobleman would have reacted.

4. How can issues of faith and religion destroy love?

5. Explain the difference in the way a woman of a lower class and a woman of a higher class might have rebuffed a man's romantic advances.

6. How can love result in poverty?

7. Should a woman of high nobility have fallen in love with a man of a lower class, what did she risk the public thinking of her?

8. Though the noblewoman would have argued that love might endanger her, what would the nobleman have identified as the true dangers of love.

9. When the woman in Dialogue 8 reproved the man of the clergy for pursuing her romantically, for what reason did she do so?

10. Provide one of the 31 rules of love provided at the end of Chapter 8.

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