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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 did the author say greedy women do to men?
(a) Bleed them dry and leave them.
(b) Make them better men by breaking them down first.
(c) Breed greed in their own hearts.
(d) Turn them into shadows of themselves.

2. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?
(a) Boasting about his nobility.
(b) Insulting her intelligence.
(c) Belittling her nobility.
(d) Praising her too much.

3. If a nobleman wished to select a middle class woman, what was his best course of action to woo her?
(a) Small gifts.
(b) Special speech.
(c) Acts of love.
(d) Loving gazes.

4. How would the woman of higher nobility react to the middle class man after he informed her of his good qualities?
(a) She would degrade them.
(b) She would be flattered.
(c) She would insist on proof.
(d) She would admire his tenacity.

5. If the beloved wanted something unreasonable, what did the author advise to do?
(a) Give it to her.
(b) Lovingly tease her about her foolishness do not give in.
(c) Use it as a tool to acquire more affection.
(d) Be abrupt and clear and refuse to give it to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the group advised to fiercely avoid love, what was one who sought their love considered to be?

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

3. According to the author, what can money not buy?

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?

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

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