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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. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?
(a) Accept it.
(b) Seek it out.
(c) Avoid it.
(d) Cherish it.

2. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?
(a) The thought of the one he loves.
(b) The chance to speak with the one he loves.
(c) A glimpse of the one he loves.
(d) The embrace of the one he loves.

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

4. 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 argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(c) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(d) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.

5. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.
(c) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(d) Nature forbids homosexuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?

2. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?

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

4. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?

5. For what reason would a nobleman claim that he would be willing to marry below his class?

Short Essay Questions

1. When a woman of nobility seized upon one of the flaws of a lower class man, how was he to best respond to win her affection?

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. Explain two ways in which a nobleman was advised to approach a middle class woman he wished to pursue romantically.

8. 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.

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

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

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