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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 3, Abelard to Heloise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Heloise's feelings at losing Abelard?
(a) Great sorrow.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Mixed relief and sadness.
(d) Outrage and despair.

2. What is the relationship between the first letter and the others?
(a) It predicts what will come.
(b) It sets the stage.
(c) It summarizes the action of the remaining letters.
(d) It comments on the action that already unfolded in the remaining letters.

3. How does Heloise open her first letter to Abelard?
(a) By saying that she saw a letter her father was going to send to his henchmen.
(b) By saying that she saw a letter the abbot was going to send to Abelard.
(c) By saying that she saw a letter he had written to a friend.
(d) By saying that she saw a letter her father had written to the abbot.

4. Where did Abelard study?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nantes.
(c) Zurich.
(d) Berlin.

5. For what does Abelard ask Heloise to pray?
(a) Revenge.
(b) Justice.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard admit to in Letter 3?

2. What did William of Champeaux do at the beginning of Abelard's career?

3. To what does Abelard return in his third letter to Heloise?

4. Heloise says that consolation shared is what?

5. What enables Abelard to return to Paris?

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