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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the author describe the effects of age on love?
2. Of the author's five ways in which love can be acquired, which three produce the most worthy forms of love?
3. What did the author warn Walter not to be fooled by when looking for love?
4. How did the author explain the effects of love on the uncouth man?
5. When the higher nobleman spoke to the woman of simple nobility, what was he advised to avoid doing in conversation with her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What thoughts and actions did the author describe as the main focus of lovers?
2. What effects might love have upon the needs for food, drink and sleep?
3. How did the author describe the way greedy women love, and what group did he suggest greedy women should join?
4. Explain the author's stance on love and homosexuality.
5. What three issues did the author identify as barring someone from the experience of real love?
6. What did the author describe as arising from the perception and focus on the beauty of another?
7. Under what condition may love be retained and still allow the lovers to indulge in the "solace of flesh"?
8. What example did the author use to explain why love is innate?
9. 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?
10. When the man in Dialogue 8 asks the woman if a man should be punished for going to another woman without loving her or achieving his desire, how did she respond?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author states that everyone of sound mind can do the works of love unless disabled by age, blindness or excess passion. Provide an example of each of these barriers to attaining love and explain why they might prohibit someone from experiencing love.
Essay Topic 2
In the beginning of the book, the author expresses strong opinions on the subject of homosexuality. Explain his opinions and cite the reasoning behind them.
Essay Topic 3
List and describe the five ways in which love can be acquired. Explain which three were identified as the only ways to truly achieve love and why two of them cannot produce love worthily.
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