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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 6, Heloise to Abelard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Abelard say he writes to Heloise?
(a) As an inferior.
(b) As a teacher.
(c) As a lover.
(d) As a superior.

2. What does Heloise tell Abelard she will do for him?
(a) Whatever he asks.
(b) Find him at his monastery.
(c) Repay her father's men for what they did.
(d) Repay him in love for what he has lost.

3. What does Heloise say Abelard should not have done for her sake?
(a) Taken up scriptural studies.
(b) Left philosophy.
(c) Married her.
(d) Sent her away.

4. What does Heloise say in Letter 6 that she cannot make herself do?
(a) Obey Abelard.
(b) Beg for forgiveness.
(c) Pray.
(d) Seek God.

5. What occasions Heloise's feelings about God?
(a) His punishing them after they atoned for their sin
(b) His allowing them to be blind to virtue.
(c) His letting them sin in the first place.
(d) His patience with them in their blindness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Heloise say commanded her to be a nun?

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

3. What should Abelard do in order to emulate the standard she sets for him?

4. What does Heloise doubt about Abelard?

5. In Letter 4, what does Heloise beg Abelard NOT to do?

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