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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two, How Love May Be Retained, Chapters 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to desire if one lover expresses anger toward the other?
(a) It matures.
(b) It stays the same.
(c) It increases.
(d) It decreases.

2. What accusation about the clergyman nobleman's interest in love did the higher noblewoman make?
(a) That he would always love God more.
(b) That it was false.
(c) That he could never truly give himself to her.
(d) That it was based on passion.

3. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what was the man advised to avoid?
(a) Praising her excessively.
(b) Insisting that his rank was more prestigious than hers.
(c) Embarrassing her.
(d) Saying anything that would ridicule himself in her eyes.

4. When the man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, what concerns about the nature of love did the woman express?
(a) Fears about the costs and torment of love.
(b) Fears of loving and losing.
(c) Worries about men being unfaithful.
(d) Worries about love not being returned.

5. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Ready speech.
(c) Good character.
(d) Riches.

Short Answer Questions

1. How might a man of the middle class convince a woman of nobility that they should enter into a romantic relationship?

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

3. When a middle class man approaches a very wise noblewoman, how must he behave?

4. When a man of higher nobility spoke to a woman of higher nobility, why did the woman say she was reluctant to fall in love?

5. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?

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