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

2. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.
(b) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(c) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(d) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.

3. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?
(a) Pure passion.
(b) Lustful thoughts.
(c) Innate suffering.
(d) Harmony.

4. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) To seize.
(b) Of great purity.
(c) To capture.
(d) A gift.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?

2. The word "love" is derived from what word?

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

4. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?

5. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What it is that woman can achieve through marriage that men cannot?

2. When a man of a lower class is rebuffed by a woman of nobility again and again, how best was he to respond to win a favorable reaction from her?

3. Provide one example of why love is dangerous.

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

5. What negative effects might love have upon warfare and peace?

6. How can love result in poverty?

7. Identify and describe the word from which "love" was derived.

8. As the man and woman in Dialogue 8 argued about the costs and benefits of love, how did the man interpret the meaning of her continued resistance?

9. What effects might love have upon the needs for food, drink and sleep?

10. When the man and woman of higher nobility interact, the woman told the man that he should be interested in something higher than the love between a man and a woman. How did the man respond?

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