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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. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?
3. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
4. The word "love" is derived from what word?
5. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?
Short Essay Questions
1. Provide one example of why love is dangerous.
2. When the man and woman of higher nobility interact, the woman told the man that he should be interested in something higher than the love between a man and a woman. How did the man respond?
3. How did the author explain the nature of peasants and their inclination to love?
4. When the woman in Dialogue 8 reproved the man of the clergy for pursuing her romantically, for what reason did she do so?
5. To what characteristic about himself was the middle class man advised to draw attention when trying to attract a woman of nobility?
6. 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.
7. Throughout the three dialogues in Book One, explain the main conversation tactic of middle class men, and the common reaction of woman of all social classes.
8. Explain the author's stance on love and homosexuality.
9. How did the author describe the feelings associated with love before it becomes balanced on each side?
10. According to the dialogues, how best might a man of a lower social ranking win the favor of a woman of nobility?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the various dialogues, the author teaches members of varying social classes the proper ways to interact on a romantic basis. Review the dialogues from Chapter 6 in which the middle class man approaches both a woman of the middle class and a noblewoman. Compare and contrast the two approach and conversation techniques and the women's responses to the man's advances.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Review the dialogues, paying careful attention to the romantic advances of the men involved in them. What similarities do you observe in all of the interactions on the part of the men as they interact with women of varying social rankings. What are the greatest differences? With which social rank of woman do you sense that the man was most respectful and "well behaved?" With which was he the worst?
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