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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 2, Heloise to Abelard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What else does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?
(a) What will constitute justice, in his situation.
(b) Whether his sin was responsible for his suffering.
(c) How long his penance should last.
(d) How much she has served him.

2. What aspects of his personality does Abelard attribute to his native region?
(a) His love of women.
(b) His volatile personality.
(c) His devotion.
(d) His even temper.

3. What did Abelard feel about his castration?
(a) It destroyed him.
(b) It was Fulbert's right.
(c) It was an outrage against his humanity.
(d) It was a reprisal for the evil he'd done.

4. What does Heloise remind Abelard of?
(a) How he was brave in the face of her father's disapproval.
(b) How she resisted his advances.
(c) How she resisted his requests to marry.
(d) How he resisted her requests to marry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between the first letter and the others?

2. What does Heloise demand from Abelard?

3. Where was Abelard born?

4. What does Heloise doubt about Abelard?

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

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