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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. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?
2. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?
3. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
4. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
5. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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.
2. Explain two ways in which a nobleman was advised to approach a middle class woman he wished to pursue romantically.
3. Provide one example of why love is dangerous.
4. When the man and woman of higher nobility interact, what was the woman ready to do at any point during the conversation?
5. What negative effects might love have upon warfare and peace?
6. What advice did the author give about seeking the love of prostitutes?
7. How can love result in poverty?
8. Should a woman of high nobility have fallen in love with a man of a lower class, what did she risk the public thinking of her?
9. Why did the author believe that women could not bind themselves to lovers in mutual love as men can?
10. When the woman in Dialogue 8 reproved the man of the clergy for pursuing her romantically, for what reason did she do so?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In Book 2, ways to retain love are discussed. List and describe specific ways in which feelings of love can be retained and increased after a relationship has been consummated. List and describe sure ways to cause love to decrease or end.
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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