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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One, Introduction to the Treatise on Love, Chapter 6, Dialogues 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?
(a) Following his own dream to share his knowledge.
(b) Following orders from superiors.
(c) Showing the world the error of its ways.
(d) Helping a friend in love.

2. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?
(a) Love can make anyone a nobleman.
(b) Love is impossible for nobility to obtain.
(c) Love makes peasants of all who love.
(d) Love makes lovers feel like royalty.

3. How did the author approach the topic of homosexuality?
(a) He believed that love has no boundaries, but religion can interfere with true love.
(b) He believed that love between two women was an abomination, but love between two men was acceptable
(c) He believed that love could only exist between a man and a woman.
(d) He believed that love between two men was an abomination, but love between two women was acceptable.

4. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
(a) Some are too old and some are too young for love.
(b) Only the youthful can truly enjoy love.
(c) Only the mature can truly enjoy love.
(d) Love knows no age.

5. When a middle class man initiates a conversation with a woman of higher nobility, how was he advised to handle the issue of his own lower social standing?
(a) He should ignore it.
(b) He should never discuss social ranking with her at all.
(c) He should acknowledge it.
(d) He should hide the truth from her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?

3. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

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

5. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?

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