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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. How does Heloise describe her and Abelard's story?
(a) Sad and moving.
(b) Tragic and unbearable.
(c) Appalling and outrageous.
(d) Moral and instructive.

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

3. To whom did Abelard write the first letter?
(a) A friend.
(b) Heloise.
(c) His father.
(d) Heloise's father.

4. How does Heloise open her first letter to Abelard?
(a) By saying that she saw a letter her father was going to send to his henchmen.
(b) By saying that she saw a letter her father had written to the abbot.
(c) By saying that she saw a letter he had written to a friend.
(d) By saying that she saw a letter the abbot was going to send to Abelard.

5. Why did Abelard's teacher come to dislike him?
(a) Because Abelard was heavily in debt to him.
(b) Because Abelard set out to disprove him.
(c) Because Abelard had an affair with a serving girl.
(d) Because Abelard was arrogant and disruptive.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did Abelard establish his reputation and earn a following?

2. What does Heloise say she admires?

3. What does Heloise doubt about Abelard?

4. What were the contents of the letter Heloise saw?

5. What was Abelard and Heloise's son named?

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