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

2. What does Heloise say, in Letter 4, she cannot find?
(a) Devotion.
(b) Patience.
(c) Penitence.
(d) Obedience.

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

4. Whom does Abelard want to pray for him?
(a) The men who castrated him.
(b) Only Heloise.
(c) Heloise's father.
(d) Heloise and the nuns.

5. What does Heloise doubt about Abelard?
(a) Whether he was prepared to take care of her.
(b) Whether his words were honest.
(c) Whether he wanted her for himself or for another.
(d) What drew him to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard say was the consequence of his lust for Heloise?

2. What does Heloise ask Abelard in her first letter?

3. What does Abelard say Heloise became when she became his wife?

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

5. What does Abelard say he will do to Heloise in Letter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Abelard go after he went to St. Denis?

2. How does Heloise end Letter 3 to Abelard?

3. To what does Heloise appeal, in Letter 6, in justifying her argument?

4. What is Abelard's advice with regard to scripture?

5. What caused the author of Letter 9to write the letter?

6. What intercession does the author of Letter 9 want to make?

7. Who are the correspondents in Letter 9?

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

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

10. What two things does Heloise ask Abelard in Letter 6?

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