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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 7, Abelard to Heloise.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heloise doubt about Abelard?
(a) Whether his words were honest.
(b) Whether he was prepared to take care of her.
(c) Whether he wanted her for himself or for another.
(d) What drew him to her.

2. What does Heloise say are her feelings toward God?
(a) Irritation.
(b) Indignation.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Nostalgia.

3. What does Heloise say, in Letter 4, she cannot find?
(a) Penitence.
(b) Obedience.
(c) Devotion.
(d) Patience.

4. What does Abelard mean to indicate by the example of the Sibyl's prophecies?
(a) Women who paid a price for falling away from priesthood.
(b) Women honored among Gentiles.
(c) Women who implemented church doctrine.
(d) Honored women in antiquity.

5. What is the logic behind Heloise's request to Abelard?
(a) The weak cannot bear the same burdens as the strong.
(b) The weak should be able to bear the same burdens as the strong.
(c) The strong should try to strengthen the weak to bear more burdens.
(d) The weak should be just as burdened as the strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does God look for virtue, according to Heloise?

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

3. What did Abelard do with his inheritance?

4. In what way does Heloise pretend in her first letter to Abelard?

5. How did Abelard seduce Heloise?

(see the answer key)

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