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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the thing based on that Heloise asked Abelard to give her?

2. What does Heloise say in Letter 6 that she cannot make herself do?

3. Who was Innocent II?

4. What does Peter the Venerable say he admires?

5. When did the practice of monasteries and convents begin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the effect of the letters between Abelard and Heloise? Describe the consequences of their correspondence, in terms of their own lives, and in terms of the lives of the monks and nuns they knew, and in terms of the monastic order.

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

Make an annotated map of the places where Abelard and Heloise's story unfolded, including Abelard's late travels. What does the map show us about the story? How did the landscape and geography affect the story?

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