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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letter 10, Peter the Venerable to Heloise, Letter 11, Heloise, Letter to Peter the Venerable, Letter 12, Peter the Venerable, Letter to Heloise, The Absolution for Peter Abelard, Two Hymns.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abelard mean to indicate by the example of the Sibyl's prophecies?
(a) Women who paid a price for falling away from priesthood.
(b) Honored women in antiquity.
(c) Women honored among Gentiles.
(d) Women who implemented church doctrine.

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

3. What does Abelard affirm to Heloise?
(a) His devotion to God.
(b) His love.
(c) His outrage.
(d) His suffering.

4. What did Abelard feel about his castration?
(a) It was a reprisal for the evil he'd done.
(b) It destroyed him.
(c) It was an outrage against his humanity.
(d) It was Fulbert's right.

5. What sin does Abelard remind Heloise of?
(a) Falling in love before being married.
(b) Making love at the refectory.
(c) Enjoying their lovemaking.
(d) Getting married in secret.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise does Peter the Venerable make to Heloise in the last letter?

2. When was letter 9 likely written?

3. What did Abelard do with his inheritance?

4. What was the status of Abelard's father?

5. Why does Heloise argue for special dispensations?

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