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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. What fear about endangering herself would a noblewoman have shared with a nobleman who was pursuing her romantically?
2. Who was Walter?
3. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about how to deal with a current love affair?
4. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
5. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the author advise women to do if their men are unfaithful, and why?
2. 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.
3. 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?
4. To what characteristic about himself was the middle class man advised to draw attention when trying to attract a woman of nobility?
5. What negative effects might love have upon warfare and peace?
6. Explain the singular reason why a nobleman would be willing to marry below his class.
7. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. Why did the author state that nuns must fiercely avoid love?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the author's feelings about peasants and their inclinations to love. Under what circumstances did the author suggest that peasants can experience love? What did the author mean when he suggested that someone who falls in love with a peasant should praise her and then, in a convenient location, "embrace [her] by force?"
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The book begins with Walter seeking advice from the author, Andreas Capellanus. Explain Walter's request of the author and the author's two goals in writing "The Art of Courtly Love". Do you believe that Andreas provided sufficient and helpful advice to Walter?
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