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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 8, Abelard to Heloise.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Abelard say in Letter 7 about the virtue of women?
(a) It is more pleasing to God.
(b) It is only appropriate for certain things.
(c) It is the same as men's virtues.
(d) It is useful for different things in religion.

5. Where was Abelard born?
(a) Nancy.
(b) Le Pallet.
(c) Paris.
(d) Nantes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many nuns are needed to run a convent, according to Abelard?

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

3. What does Abelard say is a danger to Heloise's body?

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

5. Who were monks and nuns imitating, according to Abelard?

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