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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 does Abelard say he wants others' prayers to help him avoid?
(a) Being killed.
(b) Being exiled.
(c) Being harmed further.
(d) Going to hell.

2. To what does Abelard refer her as proof of what he says?
(a) Ordinary experience.
(b) His letter.
(c) Scripture.
(d) Her childhood.

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

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

5. What enables Abelard to return to Paris?
(a) William of Champeaux offered him his chair at the university.
(b) Anselm of Canterbury offered him his chair in the university.
(c) William of Champeaux invited him back.
(d) William of Champeaux's reputation was in decline.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard admit to in Letter 3?

2. How does Heloise describe her and Abelard's story?

3. In what way did Abelard establish his reputation and earn a following?

4. How did Abelard seduce Heloise?

5. What aspects of his personality does Abelard attribute to his native region?

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