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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 in Letter 5 that he hopes to avoid?
2. What does Heloise tell Abelard she will do for him?
3. What does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?
4. What does Heloise say is Abelard's relation with her now?
5. What did William of Champeaux do at the beginning of Abelard's career?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Abelard's arguments in favor of an abbess in charge of the convent.
2. What caused the author of Letter 9to write the letter?
3. How does Heloise compare Abelard and God?
4. What does Abelard ask Heloise and her nuns to do?
5. How does Peter the Venerable greet Heloise in Letter 10?
6. What does Heloise say about the men who call her chaste?
7. List a few examples Abelard uses of women serving Christianity.
8. Why does Heloise say there should be different standards for women?
9. What sources does Abelard use in prescribing his rule to Heloise in Letter 8?
10. How does Heloise surprise Abelard in Letter 4, and what does he do in response in Letter 5?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Make an annotated timeline that shows the events that led up to the story Abelard and Heloise relate between themselves. What other events were taking place in the world around Abelard and Heloise at this time?
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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