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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the sender of Letter 9 say about Abelard?
(a) That he passed through.
(b) That the monks at his monastery were trying to kill him.
(c) That he has just received a letter from him.
(d) That he has just received a letter about him.

2. What else does Peter the Venerable say he is impressed by?
(a) Heloise's graceful handling of her difficulties.
(b) Heloise's generosity to the convent.
(c) Heloise's improvements in the monastic system.
(d) Heloise's recommendations to the church bureaucracy.

3. What else did Abelard do right before he died?
(a) Confess his sins.
(b) Receive absolution.
(c) Write out his last will.
(d) Compose hymns.

4. Where is weakness taken into account, according to Heloise?
(a) Convent conventions.
(b) Canon law.
(c) The Kabala.
(d) The Old Testament.

5. What does Heloise ask Abelard in Letter 6?
(a) To forgive her.
(b) To tell her how nuns should conduct themselves.
(c) To tell her how the order of nuns began.
(d) To describe the reasons for her to go on being a nun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that ultimately pleases God, according to Heloise?

2. When was letter 9 likely written?

3. What contrast does Abelard describe between early practice and current practice?

4. What does Abelard say about the daughters of Aaron?

5. For what does Abelard ask Heloise at the end of Letter 7?

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