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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. How does Heloise say that the thing that pleases God is manifested?
(a) In each according to his weakness.
(b) In each according to his talents.
(c) Differently in different people.
(d) The same in everyone.

2. Where does Heloise say her happiness will come from now?
(a) Self-renunciation.
(b) Abelard alone.
(c) God alone.
(d) Duty.

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

4. To whom did Abelard write the first letter?
(a) Heloise.
(b) Heloise's father.
(c) His father.
(d) A friend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard say is the cause of his feeling?

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

3. In Letter 4, what does Heloise beg Abelard to do?

4. Who does Abelard describe as an example of what he is talking about?

5. What does Letter 7 describe to Heloise?

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