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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 4, Heloise to Abelard.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What explanation does Abelard offer for his trials?
(a) Malicious men.
(b) His sins.
(c) Cruel fate.
(d) Original sin.

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

4. Whom does Abelard want to pray for him?
(a) Only Heloise.
(b) Heloise's father.
(c) The men who castrated him.
(d) Heloise and the nuns.

5. What does Abelard ask Heloise to consider?
(a) The inevitability of suffering.
(b) The inevitability of justice.
(c) The power of prayer.
(d) The power of virtuous men.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Heloise pretend in her first letter to Abelard?

2. What does Heloise ask Abelard to think about?

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

4. Who else does Heloise say was affected by Abelard's letter?

5. What does Heloise say about herself?

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