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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, how does love feel about homosexuality?
(a) Love embraces it.
(b) Love withers in homosexuality.
(c) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(d) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.

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

3. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The first stage.
(b) The second stage.
(c) The fourth stage.
(d) The third stage.

4. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?
(a) That he might slightly improve his social ranking.
(b) That he might belittle his nobility.
(c) That he would lose social ranking entirely.
(d) That he would greatly improve his social standing.

5. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Good character.
(c) Ready speech.
(d) Riches.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

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

4. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about how to deal with a current love affair?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How did the author describe the feelings associated with love before it becomes balanced on each side?

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

6. As the man and woman in Dialogue 8 interacted, he asked her if a man could love two women in the courtly fashion. What was her response?

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

8. What did the author advise women to do if their men are unfaithful, and why?

9. What type of woman did the author encourage Walter to find?

10. 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?

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