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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. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?
(a) Generosity.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Riches.
(d) Good character.

2. Should a middle class man approach a very wise noblewoman, what is the risk he takes in conducting himself poorly?
(a) Being offensive.
(b) Embarrassing himself.
(c) Appearing foolish.
(d) Boring her.

3. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?
(a) Private love affairs are considered adultery.
(b) Love affairs should be made public.
(c) Public love affairs are doomed for failure.
(d) Love affairs should be kept private.

4. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?
(a) He must take it as a cue to take the upper hand and deal with her firmly.
(b) He must thank her for her time and end the conversation.
(c) He must ask her what he must do to win her heart.
(d) He must rebuff her again and again.

5. 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?
(a) Kissing her.
(b) Showering her with gifts.
(c) Praising her excessively.
(d) Embracing her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the fourth stage?

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

3. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?

4. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

5. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain why the Countess replied in her letter to the man of higher nobility that love cannot exist between two people who are married.

3. In the instance of the older woman insisting to a man that she was too old for love, she expressed deep skepticism and lack interest. How did the man react?

4. 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?

5. Why did the author believe that women could not bind themselves to lovers in mutual love as men can?

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

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

8. What did the author describe as arising from the perception and focus on the beauty of another?

9. Explain the singular reason why a nobleman would be willing to marry below his class.

10. Throughout the three dialogues in Book One, explain the main conversation tactic of middle class men, and the common reaction of woman of all social classes.

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