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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?
(a) Too much desire.
(b) Embarrassing the other.
(c) Bad appearances.
(d) Too much flattery.

3. Throughout the conversation, the woman spoke repeatedly about the costs of love. Of what did the man speak repeatedly?
(a) Love's benefits.
(b) Love's risks.
(c) Love's attraction.
(d) Love's deception.

4. What did the author consider greedy women to be?
(a) Charity cases.
(b) God's problems.
(c) Worthy challenges.
(d) Deadly enemies.

5. How did the higher noblewoman respond to the the nobleman's question about loving two women at the same time?
(a) The lover must release both women and remain chaste.
(b) The lover must keep chaste for the beloved.
(c) The lover must seek God's guidance.
(d) The lover must choose one or risk losing both.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author advise a woman to do if her man was unfaithful?

2. What is it that the author told Walter is hard to love?

3. When the man of higher nobility spoke to the woman of higher nobility and she grew tired of their conversation and insisted that it should end, how did the nobleman respond?

4. When the author wrote about how to behave when one fell in love with a peasant, what is it believed that he was suggesting?

5. Under what condition may a man indulge in the "solace of the flesh" and still retain love?

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