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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 was the thing based on that Heloise asked Abelard to give her?
(a) The rule of St. Benedict.
(b) The story of Mary Magdalene.
(c) The freedom she enjoyed before becoming a nun.
(d) The devout acts of Christ.

2. What does Abelard say he wants others' prayers to help him avoid?
(a) Being harmed further.
(b) Being exiled.
(c) Being killed.
(d) Going to hell.

3. What does Abelard say is the cause of his feeling?
(a) His physical pain.
(b) His despair at his condition.
(c) His nostalgia for their lovemaking.
(d) His absence from Heloise.

4. What did William of Champeaux do at the beginning of Abelard's career?
(a) Encourage him.
(b) Loan him start-up money.
(c) Furnish him with letters of recommendation.
(d) Try to stop him.

5. What should people focus on, according to Abelard in Letter 8?
(a) Purifying the race of its spiritual flaws.
(b) Giving lay people an example.
(c) Submitting to God.
(d) Bringing the Messiah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Abelard feel about his castration?

2. What does Abelard say was honored by St. Paul and St. Jerome?

3. What does Abelard say has increased in him recently?

4. What aspects of his personality does Abelard attribute to his native region?

5. Whom does Abelard want to pray for him?

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