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

2. Who was Walter?
(a) The author's real name.
(b) A blind man who could not love because he could not see.
(c) A good friend of the author.
(d) A nobleman who never knew true love.

3. When a woman of high nobility accepted the romantic advances of a lower class man, she runs the risk of the public thinking that she did so only for what reason?
(a) Passion.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Cruelty.

4. What did the author suggest that a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman?
(a) Lead her.
(b) Amuse her.
(c) Flatter her.
(d) Amaze her.

5. When the middle class man approached the woman of higher nobility and she told him finally that he had no reason to hope, how was he to respond?
(a) Tell her that lack of hope does not kill love.
(b) Ask her what he might change about himself to win her over.
(c) Take it as his cue to end the pursuit.
(d) Emphasize that he was willing to hope beyond reason.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the fourth stage?

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, what should wise lovers look for to attain a lasting love?

4. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?

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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