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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. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

2. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

3. When a higher nobleman spoke to a middle class woman, how was he advised to begin the conversation?

4. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

5. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author describe the feelings associated with love before it becomes balanced on each side?

2. Explain the author's stance on love and homosexuality.

3. What role does levels of desire play in the author's twelve rules for acquiring love?

4. Provide one example of why love is dangerous.

5. What did the author describe being requested by Walter in the Preface?

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

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

8. What three issues did the author identify as barring someone from the experience of real love?

9. Explain how the nobleman was advised to approach a noblewoman, and how he was to begin conversation with her.

10. Provide one example why the author advised Walter not to look for love.

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 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 3

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?"

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