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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 2, Heloise to Abelard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Heloise remind Abelard of?
(a) How she resisted his advances.
(b) How she resisted his requests to marry.
(c) How he resisted her requests to marry.
(d) How he was brave in the face of her father's disapproval.

2. What is the relationship between the first letter and the others?
(a) It sets the stage.
(b) It summarizes the action of the remaining letters.
(c) It comments on the action that already unfolded in the remaining letters.
(d) It predicts what will come.

3. In what way does Heloise pretend in her first letter to Abelard?
(a) She pretends to be miserable over Abelard's plight.
(b) She pretends to be happy where she is.
(c) She pretends not to make a demand.
(d) She pretends to be optimistic about seeing Abelard again.

4. What does Heloise say is Abelard's relation with her now?
(a) He owes her an enormous debt.
(b) He has to redeem her.
(c) She owes him an enormous debt.
(d) She has to redeem him.

5. What does Heloise ask Abelard in her first letter?
(a) Why she has not heard from him.
(b) How he is doing.
(c) What he has done about rescuing her from the convent.
(d) When she will see him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Abelard study?

2. Where does Heloise say her happiness will come from now?

3. How did Abelard seduce Heloise?

4. What does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?

5. What enables Abelard to return to Paris?

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