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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Letter 5, what does Abelard ask Heloise to stop in the future?
(a) Writing him with her complaints.
(b) Trying to see him.
(c) Rebelling against fate.
(d) Doubting God's grace.

3. What does Abelard say motivated him to tell Heloise the things that filled her with despair?
(a) Desire to share in suffering out of love.
(b) Desire to educate her about man's wicked ways.
(c) Desire for God's forgiveness.
(d) Desire to fill her soul with awe and desire for repentance.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Heloise say her happiness will come from now?

2. Where does Abelard ask Heloise to take his body if he dies?

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

4. Where was Abelard born?

5. What does Heloise say she feels in Abelard's absence?

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