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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 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what stage of the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love should a woman try to find a lover?
(a) The first stage.
(b) The second stage.
(c) The fourth stage.
(d) The third stage.

2. According to the author, upon what do lovers focus their attention?
(a) Speaking words of love to those they love.
(b) Having physical contact with those they love.
(c) Bringing about the enjoyment of those they love.
(d) Catching a glimpse of those they love.

3. For a nobleman whose advances are being rebuffed by a middle class woman, what must he argue to her?
(a) That she may be low born, but she deserves to be treated as upper class.
(b) The goodness of his character.
(c) The importance of his social ranking.
(d) That she is more beautiful and kind than any woman in his class.

4. If a nobleman effectively offered the correct praise to a noblewoman, what might she have permitted him to do daily?
(a) Flatter her.
(b) View her.
(c) Embrace her.
(d) Touch her.

5. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, what is the third stage?
(a) Hope.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Whole person.
(d) Embrace.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what reason would a nobleman claim that he would be willing to marry below his class?

2. Which way of acquiring love does so with little effort?

3. 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?

4. According to the author in the Preface, what was his reason for writing the book?

5. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?

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