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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. How would a noblewoman respond to compliments from a nobleman?
(a) She would be embarrassed but flattered.
(b) She would be appreciative.
(c) She would feel offended.
(d) She would rebuff him.

2. In wooing a woman of higher social ranking, how might the middle class man best win her attention?
(a) He should pretend to be of a higher class until she gets to know him.
(b) He should acknowledge that he is undeserving of her and beg for her favor.
(c) He should avoid the issue of social class and focus only on flattering her with praise.
(d) He should tell her that love transcends social class.

3. Of the five ways to acquire love, which is the only one worthy of love?
(a) Riches.
(b) Generosity.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Good character.

4. 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?
(a) In the middle of the conversation.
(b) Before the conversation really begins.
(c) At the end of the conversation.
(d) Early in the conversation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a middle class man suggests a relationship with a middle class woman and she resists him, how is the man to respond?

2. During a conversation between a nobleman and a noblewoman, what was she to give permission for him to do?

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

4. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How can love result in poverty?

2. In retaining love, give an example of how a man can keep a love from being publicly known.

3. What thoughts and actions did the author describe as the main focus of lovers?

4. Provide one example the author gave for why women are greedy and generally bad.

5. 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?

6. As the man and woman in Dialogue 8 argued about the costs and benefits of love, how did the man interpret the meaning of her continued resistance?

7. What advice did the author give about seeking the love of prostitutes?

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

9. What did the woman in Dialogue 8 suspect was the motive for the clergyman nobleman's interest in her, and how did he respond to her accusation?

10. Identify and describe the word from which "love" was derived.

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