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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 is a danger to Heloise's body?
(a) Her bitterness.
(b) Her despair.
(c) Her devotion.
(d) Her lust.

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

3. What does Heloise say will prevent her from praying for Abelard?
(a) Doubt.
(b) Distress.
(c) Irreligious sentiments.
(d) Lust.

4. What does Abelard say he will do to Heloise in Letter 5?
(a) Disappoint her.
(b) Pray for her.
(c) Enlighten her.
(d) Encourage her.

5. Why did Abelard's teacher come to dislike him?
(a) Because Abelard was arrogant and disruptive.
(b) Because Abelard set out to disprove him.
(c) Because Abelard had an affair with a serving girl.
(d) Because Abelard was heavily in debt to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Heloise's feelings at losing Abelard?

2. What does Heloise say was her and Abelard's sin?

3. What does Abelard ask Heloise to consider?

4. What does Heloise say makes it impossible to endure Abelard's absence?

5. What were the contents of the letter Heloise saw?

Short Essay Questions

1. What contrast does Abelard draw with women's practices and men's?

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

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

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

5. Describe Abelard's arguments in favor of an abbess in charge of the convent.

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

7. Where does Abelard say his sufferings came from?

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

9. In Letter 7, what examples of women in the church does Abelard use from antiquity?

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

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