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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 Abelard say Heloise became when she became his wife?
(a) His superior.
(b) His inferior.
(c) His student.
(d) His teacher.

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

3. What does Heloise say she admires?
(a) The honesty with which Abelard followed philosophy.
(b) The courage Abelard showed by fighting for her.
(c) The things Abelard sacrificed to be with her.
(d) The debt Abelard took upon himself.

4. What does Heloise demand from Abelard?
(a) Rescue.
(b) Money.
(c) An apology.
(d) A letter.

5. Why does Heloise argue for special dispensations?
(a) Monastic life was designed for ascetics, not for everyone.
(b) Monastic life should not be imposed on people who will only fail at it.
(c) She does not want certain nuns to be sent away from the convent.
(d) Not everyone can emulate the sufferings of Christ the same way.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Letter 6, what does Heloise ask Abelard to do for her?

2. What sin does Abelard remind Heloise of?

3. What else does Abelard ask Heloise to do pray for?

4. What is the relationship between the first letter and the others?

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

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