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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 4, Heloise to Abelard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abelard say is the cause of his feeling?
(a) His physical pain.
(b) His nostalgia for their lovemaking.
(c) His absence from Heloise.
(d) His despair at his condition.

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

3. In what way does Heloise say Abelard disregarded custom?
(a) By writing to her at the convent.
(b) By writing with only grief and worry.
(c) By failing to describe her as his wife.
(d) By asking her to intervene in his salvation.

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

5. What does Heloise say was her and Abelard's sin?
(a) Apostasy.
(b) Disobedience.
(c) Fornication.
(d) Sacrilege.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the contents of the letter Heloise saw?

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

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

5. What was Abelard's father's plan for Abelard?

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