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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 withers in homosexuality.
(b) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.
(c) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(d) Love embraces it.

2. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
(a) Excess passion causes men to fall in love too easily.
(b) Some men are so enslaved to desire that love cannot bind them.
(c) Excess passion causes men to only feel lust and never feel love.
(d) Some men are too passionate to ever truly be loved.

3. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?
(a) In the middle of the conversation.
(b) Before the conversation really begins.
(c) Early in the conversation.
(d) At the end of the conversation.

4. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.
(b) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(c) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(d) Love can make anyone a nobleman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

2. How would a noblewoman respond to compliments from a nobleman?

3. In the first dialogue, how did the conversation between the middle class man and the middle class woman begin?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. When a man of a lower class is rebuffed by a woman of nobility again and again, how best was he to respond to win a favorable reaction from her?

2. 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.

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

4. 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?

5. How might a man know that a love has been restored or is returning?

6. When the man and woman of higher nobility interact, what was the woman ready to do at any point during the conversation?

7. Provide one example the author gave for why women are greedy and generally bad.

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

9. Provide one example why the author advised Walter not to look for love.

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

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