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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?

2. Up until the beginning of Chapters 7-12, which class, often considered the most noble, was unmentioned?

3. What did the author identify as a sure way to decrease love?

4. What type of women who are hard to love did the author provide as an example to Walter?

5. The author encouraged Walter to find a woman who would love him regardless of what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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.

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