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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. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?
(a) It come directly from God when the moment is right.
(b) It is a figment of the imagination.
(c) It is innate to humans.
(d) It develops only when a connection is there.

2. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?
(a) He should pretend to be of a higher class until she gets to know him.
(b) He should tell her that love transcends social class.
(c) He should avoid the issue of social class and focus only on flattering her with praise.
(d) He should acknowledge that he is undeserving of her and beg for her favor.

3. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?
(a) Becoming careless and silly because of love.
(b) Tarnishing her reputation.
(c) Giving into the power of the goddess of love.
(d) Belittling her nobility.

4. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
(a) Riches.
(b) Good character.
(c) Ready speech.
(d) Beauty.

5. When a higher nobleman spoke to a middle class woman, how was he advised to begin the conversation?
(a) By giving her a gift.
(b) With flattery.
(c) By telling her immediately that he is interested in her.
(d) By complimenting her intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?

2. 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?

3. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, to what age group does a woman's ideal man belong?

4. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?

5. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?

Short Essay Questions

1. What example did the author use to explain why love is innate?

2. Explain why the noblest class, the clergy, cannot look for love.

3. 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?

4. How can love result in poverty?

5. 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.

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

7. According to the dialogues, how best might a man of a lower social ranking win the favor of a woman of nobility?

8. 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?

9. When the man in Dialogue 8 asks the woman if a man should be punished for going to another woman without loving her or achieving his desire, how did she respond?

10. How did the author explain the nature of peasants and their inclination to love?

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