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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When a man and a woman, both of higher nobility interacted, how did the author advise the man to speak to the woman?

2. What future awaits a woman who stays with a cheating man?

3. What did the author write that all involved in courtly love should avoid?

4. What happens when love starts to decline?

5. Which of the two lovers, if any, did the higher noblewoman think a man should give up?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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