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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 9, Peter the Venerable: Letter (98) to Pope Innocent I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abelard ask Heloise to do if he is killed?
(a) Bless him.
(b) Cremate him.
(c) Bury him.
(d) Embalm him.

2. How does God view virtue in pagans, according to Abelard in Letter 7?
(a) He does not recognize it.
(b) He is hostile to it.
(c) He sees but does not reward it.
(d) He honors it.

3. What does Abelard ask Heloise to consider?
(a) The power of virtuous men.
(b) The inevitability of justice.
(c) The power of prayer.
(d) The inevitability of suffering.

4. How would you describe Abelard's method of arranging Letter 7?
(a) Orderly.
(b) A developmental crescendo.
(c) Haphazard.
(d) Chaotic.

5. What occasions Heloise's feelings about God?
(a) His letting them sin in the first place.
(b) His patience with them in their blindness.
(c) His punishing them after they atoned for their sin
(d) His allowing them to be blind to virtue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Heloise pretend in her first letter to Abelard?

2. Who sent Letter 9?

3. What does Heloise ask Abelard in her first letter?

4. In Letter 5, what does Abelard ask Heloise to stop in the future?

5. Whom does Abelard say Jesus honored?

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