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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 Heloise should focus on entirely?
(a) The salvation of his soul.
(b) The salvation of her soul.
(c) Making things right with her father.
(d) The arrogance of their actions.

2. How does Heloise describe her and Abelard's story?
(a) Appalling and outrageous.
(b) Sad and moving.
(c) Tragic and unbearable.
(d) Moral and instructive.

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

4. In Letter 4, what does Heloise beg Abelard to do?
(a) Rescue her from the convent.
(b) Come to see her.
(c) Tell her about his situation in detail.
(d) Spare her further grief.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom did Abelard write the first letter?

2. What did Abelard do with his inheritance?

3. What explanation does Abelard offer for his action?

4. What was Abelard and Heloise's son named?

5. Why did Abelard's teacher come to dislike him?

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