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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. When the noblewoman expressed her fear about endangering herself, how would the nobleman be expected to respond?
2. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?
3. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?
4. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the author state that nuns must fiercely avoid love?
2. How did the author explain the nature of peasants and their inclination to love?
3. How can love result in poverty?
4. Provide one of the 31 rules of love provided at the end of Chapter 8.
5. How can issues of faith and religion destroy love?
6. Identify and describe the word from which "love" was derived.
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. Explain how the nobleman was advised to approach a noblewoman, and how he was to begin conversation with her.
10. How did the author describe the way greedy women love, and what group did he suggest greedy women should join?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Review the thirty-one rules of love and select three that appeal to you. For each, briefly explain why this rule is important for love to flourish.
Essay Topic 2
The author states that everyone of sound mind can do the works of love unless disabled by age, blindness or excess passion. Provide an example of each of these barriers to attaining love and explain why they might prohibit someone from experiencing love.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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