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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice about making a love known to the public did the author provide to men?
(a) They should make it known that they are taken, but not by whom.
(b) They should keep love very secret and never tell anyone during early courtship.
(c) They should avoid letting it be publicly known.
(d) They should share their love openly with the public.

2. Why were nuns advised to fiercely avoid love?
(a) They were not worthy of love.
(b) They were doomed to never find true love.
(c) They loved money too much.
(d) It would stir up God's wrath.

3. If the beloved wanted something unreasonable, what did the author advise to do?
(a) Be abrupt and clear and refuse to give it to her.
(b) Use it as a tool to acquire more affection.
(c) Lovingly tease her about her foolishness do not give in.
(d) Give it to her.

4. What did the author explain as a negative effect of marriage?
(a) It causes people to become resentful.
(b) It prevents people from loving each other.
(c) It makes communication stop.
(d) It puts an end to courtly love.

5. In the author's reviews of decisions in love cases, what was the reason in the second case that a man asked his lover if he could embrace another woman?
(a) He was jealous of his lover.
(b) He was testing his lover.
(c) He was punishing his lover cruelly.
(d) He was in love with another woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. A member of the most noble class was called what?

2. What did the nobleman wonder about loving two women at the same time?

3. What does blasphemy against God do to love?

4. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?

5. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?

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