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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heloise say men say about her?
(a) That she is the most fortunate of women.
(b) That she is chaste.
(c) That she is the most miserable of women.
(d) That she is a hypocrite.

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

3. What does Abelard say was the consequence of his lust for Heloise?
(a) He lost his reverence for God.
(b) He forgot his duties as a teacher.
(c) He betrayed her father's trust.
(d) He defiled her soul.

4. 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

5. In Letter 4, what does Heloise say her feelings are in response to Abelard's letter?
(a) Misery.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Relief.
(d) Delight.

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

7. What does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?
(a) Whether they ought to see each other again.
(b) What her father can do for them.
(c) What he owes her.
(d) What she can do for him.

8. What else does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?
(a) What will constitute justice, in his situation.
(b) How much she has served him.
(c) Whether his sin was responsible for his suffering.
(d) How long his penance should last.

9. What does Abelard ask Heloise to consider?
(a) The power of virtuous men.
(b) The power of prayer.
(c) The inevitability of justice.
(d) The inevitability of suffering.

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

11. What explanation does Abelard offer for his action?
(a) He thought their time together was over.
(b) He wanted to put the past behind him.
(c) He did not want to make her suffer.
(d) He thought she could not love him now.

12. How does Abelard answer Heloise's second letter in Letter 5?
(a) Indirectly.
(b) Point by point.
(c) In roundabout fashion.
(d) Impressionistically.

13. What was the status of Abelard's father?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Professor.
(d) Knight.

14. In what way does Heloise pretend in her first letter to Abelard?
(a) She pretends not to make a demand.
(b) She pretends to be optimistic about seeing Abelard again.
(c) She pretends to be happy where she is.
(d) She pretends to be miserable over Abelard's plight.

15. What explanation does Abelard offer for his trials?
(a) Original sin.
(b) Cruel fate.
(c) Malicious men.
(d) His sins.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Abelard ask Heloise to pray?

2. Where does Heloise say her happiness will come from now?

3. Whom does Abelard want to pray for him?

4. How does Heloise open her first letter to Abelard?

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

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