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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Letter 5, what does Abelard ask Heloise to accept?
(a) Her father's forgiveness.
(b) God's will.
(c) Her father's permission to return home.
(d) His forgiveness.

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

4. How does Abelard answer Heloise's second letter in Letter 5?
(a) Impressionistically.
(b) Indirectly.
(c) In roundabout fashion.
(d) Point by point.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard say is the cause of his feeling?

2. In Letter 5, what does Abelard say he is surprised by?

3. Heloise says that consolation shared is what?

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

5. Where does Abelard ask Heloise to take his body if he dies?

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