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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abelard admit to in Letter 3?
(a) Disappointing her.
(b) Owing her a great debt.
(c) Avoiding contact with her.
(d) Feeling freed of her.

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

3. Why did Abelard originally send Heloise away?
(a) To hide her pregnancy.
(b) To sequester her away from suitors.
(c) To let her recover from illness.
(d) To avoid the disgrace of a hasty marriage.

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

5. What does Heloise say she has sought out for Abelard?
(a) His due.
(b) Justice.
(c) His glory.
(d) Revenge.

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

7. In Letter 4, what does Heloise beg Abelard NOT to do?
(a) Pray for her.
(b) Remember her.
(c) Write to her.
(d) Praise her.

8. What are Heloise's feelings at losing Abelard?
(a) Mixed relief and sadness.
(b) Outrage and despair.
(c) Great sorrow.
(d) Injustice.

9. What was the status of Abelard's father?
(a) Preacher.
(b) Knight.
(c) Professor.
(d) Merchant.

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

11. In Letter 4, what does Heloise beg Abelard to do?
(a) Tell her about his situation in detail.
(b) Rescue her from the convent.
(c) Spare her further grief.
(d) Come to see her.

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

13. What did William of Champeaux do at the beginning of Abelard's career?
(a) Try to stop him.
(b) Furnish him with letters of recommendation.
(c) Encourage him.
(d) Loan him start-up money.

14. What does Abelard ask Heloise to do if he is killed?
(a) Embalm him.
(b) Cremate him.
(c) Bless him.
(d) Bury him.

15. What were the contents of the letter Heloise saw?
(a) Heloise's father asking the authorities to punish Abelard.
(b) Abelard lamenting his and Heloise's plight.
(c) Heloise's father asking his men to take revenge.
(d) Heloise's mother asking her husband to be lenient on Abelard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abelard say Heloise deserves?

2. What does Heloise say she admires?

3. In Letter 5, what does Abelard ask Heloise to stop in the future?

4. What explanation does Abelard offer for his trials?

5. What else does Abelard ask Heloise to do pray for?

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