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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the middle class man decided to suggest a relationship with the middle class woman, how did he proceed?
(a) By pointing out how much more noble she is than he.
(b) By informing her that she would be wise to engage in a relationship with him.
(c) By begging for her attention and the chance to know her better.
(d) By asking her if she found him agreeable.

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

3. If a middle class woman asked for the chance to think over the romantic advances of a nobleman, how was the nobleman to respond?
(a) He was to give her a time limit or appear foolish.
(b) He was to agree to wait.
(c) He was to insist that she decide immediately.
(d) He was to convince her to follow her heart, not her mind.

4. According to the author, how does love feel about homosexuality?
(a) Love is ashamed to accept it.
(b) Love is replaced by lust in homosexuality.
(c) Love embraces it.
(d) Love withers in homosexuality.

5. What did the author describe as the result of focusing on the beauty of another?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Pure passion.
(c) Lustful thoughts.
(d) Innate suffering.

6. 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 asked if a woman of good character and humble birth is better than poor character and high birth.
(c) She might have been flattered but be suspicious of his actions and intentions.
(d) She might have embarrassed herself by acting too flirty and forward.

7. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about two lovers' levels of desire?
(a) Their levels of desire should always be absolutely identical.
(b) The man should always exceed the woman in desire.
(c) Neither should exceed the other in desire.
(d) The woman should always exceed the man in desire.

8. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?
(a) Nobility.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Good character.
(d) Protection from harm.

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

10. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?
(a) If it is given freely.
(b) Only if it caused the giver great joy.
(c) If the giver is in love, as well.
(d) If it was painful for the giver to give.

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

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

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

14. When a nobleman approached a noblewoman, how was he to begin a conversation?
(a) With a gift.
(b) With a request for her advice.
(c) With humor.
(d) With flattery.

15. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about avarice, or love of wealth?
(a) Seek it out.
(b) Avoid it.
(c) Cherish it.
(d) Accept it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?

3. 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?

4. How did the author explain the connection between love and greed?

5. When a nobleman sat next to a middle class woman without permission, what message does he send?

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