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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a nobleman wished to select a middle class woman, what was his best course of action to woo her?
(a) Special speech.
(b) Small gifts.
(c) Acts of love.
(d) Loving gazes.

2. 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.

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

4. 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.

5. If a middle class woman were to resist a middle class man because he is younger than she, how must the man respond?
(a) He must remind her that beauty fades but it is good character than matters.
(b) He must argue that he will live and love long and thus will become worthy of her love some day.
(c) He must use his wealth or other attribute to win her over.
(d) He must accept her rebuke and appraoch her again when he is older.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the middle class woman's initial reaction in the conversation, how did the author instruct the middle class man to respond?

2. Among the author's twelve rules for acquiring love, what did he have to say about private versus public relationships?

3. How did the author explain the link between love, perception and social class?

4. What did the author note that women can achieve through marriage, but men cannot?

5. According to the author, what is the only way that a lover can accept something of value from the beloved?

Short Essay Questions

1. Provide one of the 31 rules of love provided at the end of Chapter 8.

2. In the Preface, explain the request that the author's friend made of him that led him to write the book.

3. What effects might love have upon the needs for food, drink and sleep?

4. In the instance of the older woman insisting to a man that she was too old for love, she expressed deep skepticism and lack interest. How did the man react?

5. What it is that woman can achieve through marriage that men cannot?

6. What example did the author use to explain why love is innate?

7. Provide one example why the author advised Walter not to look for love.

8. Explain the difference in the way a woman of a lower class and a woman of a higher class might have rebuffed a man's romantic advances.

9. Why did the author state that nuns must fiercely avoid love?

10. How did the author describe the feelings associated with love before it becomes balanced on each side?

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