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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. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?
(a) View her.
(b) Touch her.
(c) Flatter her.
(d) Embrace her.

2. 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?
(a) With some resistance.
(b) With giggles and sometimes blushing.
(c) With no resistance.
(d) With slight annoyance.

3. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?
(a) Showing the world the error of its ways.
(b) Following orders from superiors.
(c) Helping a friend in love.
(d) Following his own dream to share his knowledge.

4. In the dialogue between the nobleman and the noblewoman, how was the nobleman advised to respond when the noblewoman admitted that enjoying love was great and rejecting it was harmful, and though she was afraid of love's burdens, she had an interest in it?
(a) He should be wary of her.
(b) He should correct her gently.
(c) He should embrace her.
(d) He should thank her.

5. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?
(a) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(b) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.
(c) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.
(d) Their levels of desire should always be absolutely identical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?

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

3. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the woman in Dialogue 8 suspect was the motive for the clergyman nobleman's interest in her, and how did he respond to her accusation?

2. When a man of higher nobility approached a woman of simple nobility, of what was he advised to avoid doing during conversation?

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

4. Under what condition may love be retained and still allow the lovers to indulge in the "solace of flesh"?

5. Explain how the nobleman was advised to approach a noblewoman, and how he was to begin conversation with her.

6. Explain the author's stance on love and homosexuality.

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

8. Why did the author state that nuns must fiercely avoid love?

9. In the Preface, explain the request that the author's friend made of him that led him to write the book.

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

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