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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about how to deal with a current love affair?
2. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?
3. Despite her social rank, how might a middle class man perceive a noblewoman to be?
4. How would a noblewoman respond to compliments from a nobleman?
5. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to the dialogues, how best might a man of a lower social ranking win the favor of a woman of nobility?
2. What it is that woman can achieve through marriage that men cannot?
3. 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.
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. 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?
6. 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?
7. When the man and woman of higher nobility interact, what was the woman ready to do at any point during the conversation?
8. Provide one example why the author advised Walter not to look for love.
9. How can love result in poverty?
10. How did the author explain the nature of peasants and their inclination to love?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
List and describe the five ways in which love can be acquired. Explain which three were identified as the only ways to truly achieve love and why two of them cannot produce love worthily.
Essay Topic 2
Called "terrible" and "dangerous," the author provided many warnings against fooling with love. List at least three examples each for how love is both dangerous and terrible. Provide a real-life example of each you listed.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the dialogues, the women, regardless of their social ranking, continually rebuff the advances of the men who sought to pursue them romantically. Review the dialogues and the women's responses to the men's advances. What similarities to you observe in their responses? What are the greatest differences?
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