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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. The nobleman explained to the noblewoman he pursued that the real danger she should fear lay in what?
2. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?
3. If a middle class woman was being pursued by a nobleman, what might she say to rebuff his advances?
4. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
5. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
Short Essay Questions
1. Under what condition may love be retained and still allow the lovers to indulge in the "solace of flesh"?
2. Why did the author believe that women could not bind themselves to lovers in mutual love as men can?
3. 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?
4. When a man of higher nobility approached a woman of simple nobility, of what was he advised to avoid doing during conversation?
5. What it is that woman can achieve through marriage that men cannot?
6. Explain two ways in which a nobleman was advised to approach a middle class woman he wished to pursue romantically.
7. What three issues did the author identify as barring someone from the experience of real love?
8. 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.
9. What role does levels of desire play in the author's twelve rules for acquiring love?
10. What did the woman in Dialogue 8 suspect was the motive for the clergyman nobleman's interest in her, and how did he respond to her accusation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the four-stage theory of the appropriate development of love.
Part 1: Provide an example of each stage in a real-life romantic scenario.
Part 2: In which stage of development did the author advise women to find a lover? Which age group did he suggest? Why?
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
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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