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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. For what reason would a nobleman claim that he would be willing to marry below his class?
(a) Godliness.
(b) Good character.
(c) Great beauty.
(d) Kindness.

2. 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 belittle his nobility.
(b) That he might slightly improve his social ranking.
(c) That he would lose social ranking entirely.
(d) That he would greatly improve his social standing.

3. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?
(a) Bravery.
(b) Steel.
(c) Foolishness.
(d) Good character.

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

5. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?
(a) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(b) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.
(c) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(d) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

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

3. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?

4. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

5. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Identify and describe the word from which "love" was derived.

2. What advice did the author give about seeking the love of prostitutes?

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

4. 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.

5. As the man and woman in Dialogue 8 argued about the costs and benefits of love, how did the man interpret the meaning of her continued resistance?

6. Two of the five ways in which love can be obtained are beauty and good character. Which of these wins love with little effort and which is the characteristic that wise men choose?

7. Give one example of why the author described greedy women as "deadly enemies".

8. How can issues of faith and religion destroy love?

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

10. 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?

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