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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. During a conversation between a nobleman and a noblewoman, what was she to give permission for him to do?
(a) Sit beside her.
(b) Speak to her about love.
(c) Look her in the face.
(d) Touch her hand.

2. How might a middle class woman respond to the advances of a nobleman?
(a) She might have been insulted and informed him that she intended to marry in her own social class and he should do the same.
(b) She might have been flattered but be suspicious of his actions and intentions.
(c) She might have embarrassed herself by acting too flirty and forward.
(d) She might have asked if a woman of good character and humble birth is better than poor character and high birth.

3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
(a) Riches and promiscuity.
(b) Age, either too young or too old.
(c) Beauty or excellent talk.
(d) Someone with excess passion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?

2. When the middle class man successfully performed what the author suggested he should do in every conversation with a middle class woman, how did the woman respond?

3. Recalling the thing the author suggested a middle class man always do in a conversation with a middle class woman, when did he suggest that it be done in the course of a conversation?

4. In the four-stage theory of appropriate development of love, to what age group does a woman's ideal man belong?

5. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?

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