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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. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?

2. What might a middle class woman have said to a nobleman about his social ranking if he had pursued her romantically?

3. The author cautioned that a man of low social standing approaching a woman of nobility unless the man be of what?

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the first stage?

5. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effects might love have upon the needs for food, drink and sleep?

2. In what ways may love increase after it has been consummated?

3. Identify and describe the word from which "love" was derived.

4. 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?

5. Explain why the noblest class, the clergy, cannot look for love.

6. Why did the author believe that women could not bind themselves to lovers in mutual love as men can?

7. What type of woman did the author encourage Walter to find?

8. In retaining love, give an example of how a man can keep a love from being publicly known.

9. Explain two ways in which a nobleman was advised to approach a middle class woman he wished to pursue romantically.

10. Explain why the Countess replied in her letter to the man of higher nobility that love cannot exist between two people who are married.

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

Throughout the book, the costs and benefits of love are weighed. Provide three examples of the high costs of love and three examples of the benefits of love. Do the benefits outweigh the costs? Overall, does the author support those seeking love, or is his message more of a warning to avoid love and all of its troubles?

Essay Topic 3

In Book Two, the author reviewed decisions in love cases, many of which involved the Countess of Champagne. Select three of the cases decided by the Countess of Champagne and review her decisions. Are there similarities in her decisions? What are the greatest differences?

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