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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, Preface, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what does love cause a person to seek above all other things?
(a) The thought of the one he loves.
(b) The chance to speak with the one he loves.
(c) The embrace of the one he loves.
(d) A glimpse of the one he loves.

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

3. How did the author explain the issue of nature and homosexuality?
(a) Nature makes homosexuality impossible.
(b) Nature makes homosexuality innate for some.
(c) Nature forbids homosexuality.
(d) Nature makes homosexuality innate for all, and heterosexuality is a choice.

4. Before love becomes balanced on both sides, what did the author say happens to two people in love?
(a) Their feelings change from lust to a sacred love.
(b) No passion is purer than theirs.
(c) They experience the greatest anticipation of their lives.
(d) No suffering is greater than theirs.

5. How did the author explain the connection between blindness and love?
(a) Blind people fall in love too often because they cannot determine true beauty.
(b) The blind cannot see anything on which the mind can become obsessed.
(c) The eyes of the soul see all that needs to be seen.
(d) Blind people love better than those with sight because they use all of their senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?

2. Because a man will see his ideal woman, lust after her and make plans to woo her, how did the author explain love's origins?

3. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?

4. How did the author explain the effects of excess passion on love?

5. According to the author, about what do people in love think continually?

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