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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, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Catching a glimpse of those they love.
(b) Having physical contact with those they love.
(c) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.
(d) Speaking words of love to those they love.

2. What is the meaning of the word from which "love" is derived?
(a) To capture.
(b) A gift.
(c) Of great purity.
(d) To seize.

3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Someone with excess passion.
(b) Beauty or excellent talk.
(c) Age, either too young or too old.
(d) Riches and promiscuity.

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

5. Of what other danger did the nobleman warn the noblewoman?
(a) Never having children.
(b) Losing her nobility.
(c) Choosing the wrong man.
(d) Never loving at all.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?

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

3. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?

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

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the second stage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

4. 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?

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

6. In the instance of the older woman insisting to a man that she was too old for love, she expressed deep skepticism and lack interest. How did the man react?

7. What negative effects can love have upon the virtues of honor and chastity?

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

9. Provide one example of why love is dangerous.

10. Explain the singular reason why a nobleman would be willing to marry below his class.

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