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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 were the contents of the letter Heloise saw?
(a) Heloise's father asking the authorities to punish Abelard.
(b) Heloise's mother asking her husband to be lenient on Abelard.
(c) Abelard lamenting his and Heloise's plight.
(d) Heloise's father asking his men to take revenge.

2. Heloise says that consolation shared is what?
(a) Consolation eased.
(b) All the consolation there is.
(c) Consolation doubled.
(d) The basis of love.

3. What does Heloise ask Abelard in her first letter?
(a) When she will see him again.
(b) How he is doing.
(c) Why she has not heard from him.
(d) What he has done about rescuing her from the convent.

4. What does Heloise say Abelard should not have done for her sake?
(a) Married her.
(b) Sent her away.
(c) Left philosophy.
(d) Taken up scriptural studies.

5. What explanation does Abelard offer for his trials?
(a) His sins.
(b) Malicious men.
(c) Cruel fate.
(d) Original sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What enables Abelard to return to Paris?

2. What does Heloise tell Abelard she will do for him?

3. To what does Abelard refer her as proof of what he says?

4. Who was Abelard's second enemy in the university system?

5. Where was Abelard born?

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