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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was Abelard's second enemy in the university system?
(a) Anselm of Canterbury.
(b) William of Champeaux.
(c) Anselm of Laon.
(d) Fulbert.

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

5. In Letter 5, what does Abelard say he is surprised by?
(a) Heloise's refusal to accept her situation.
(b) Heloise's lustfulness.
(c) Heloise's devotion.
(d) Heloise's bitterness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What else does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?

3. Why does Abelard say that Heloise deserves praise?

4. How does Abelard say he writes to Heloise?

5. Who else does Heloise say was affected by Abelard's letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Abelard assure to Heloise in Letter 3?

2. In Letter 2, what does Heloise say her motive for writing was?

3. How does Heloise surprise Abelard in Letter 4, and what does he do in response in Letter 5?

4. What does Abelard beg Heloise for in Letter 3?

5. What does Heloise say about answering Abelard's requests of her?

6. How does Heloise end Letter 3 to Abelard?

7. What reason does Abelard give for writing to Heloise again in Letter 5?

8. What does Heloise say about virtue?

9. What does Abelard say is the purpose of monastic life?

10. How did Abelard seduce Heloise?

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