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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Abelard say he wants others' prayers to help him avoid?
2. To what does Abelard refer her as proof of what he says?
3. To whom did Abelard write the first letter?
4. What does Heloise say she admires?
5. How, in Letter 5, does Abelard say Heloise should see him now?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was Anselm of Laon and how did he figure in Abelard's career?
2. What sources does Abelard use in prescribing his rule to Heloise in Letter 8?
3. List a few examples Abelard uses of women serving Christianity.
4. What does Abelard remind Heloise of in Letter 5?
5. What steps does the author of Letter 9 describe Abelard having taken?
6. What does Abelard say is the purpose of monastic life?
7. What happened after Abelard asked for a public transfer to the abbey from which he wrote the current letter?
8. Where does Abelard say his sufferings came from?
9. In Letter 7, what examples of women in the church does Abelard use from antiquity?
10. Who are the correspondents in Letter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the God to whom Abelard and Heloise show their devotion. What does he want, how does he behave, and what kind of behavior does he encourage in human beings? Does he ever respond to their prayers? How, or why not?
Essay Topic 2
How would Abelard and Heloise answer Nietzsche's claim that Christian morality is slave morality that celebrates the weakness of the followers as against the master morality that celebrates the strength of the masters?
Essay Topic 3
Peter the Venerable's letter to the pope is the first interjection from outside of Abelard and Heloise. What is Peter the Venerable's role in this epistolary conversation? What is his authority in this relationship? How does his appearance change the correspondence?
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