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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should people focus on, according to Abelard in Letter 8?
(a) Submitting to God.
(b) Purifying the race of its spiritual flaws.
(c) Giving lay people an example.
(d) Bringing the Messiah.

2. What is the tone of the first part of Letter 9?
(a) Dithering.
(b) Beseeching.
(c) Imposing.
(d) Narrative.

3. What did the woman do, whom Abelard cited in Letter 7?
(a) Prepared for the Last Supper.
(b) Anointed Christ with oil.
(c) Discovered Christ's empty tomb.
(d) Took Christ down from the cross.

4. What should the practice of silence result in, according to Abelard?
(a) Ascending to God.
(b) Concentrating the mind.
(c) Purifying the mind.
(d) Emptying the mind.

5. What does Abelard say about the daughters of Aaron?
(a) They held priestly office equally with their brothers.
(b) They excelled their brothers in devotion.
(c) They took the priestly offices from their brothers.
(d) They betrayed their brothers' priestly duties.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abelard define poverty?

2. For what is Heloise arguing in Letter 6?

3. What does Abelard say life becomes in poverty?

4. What reason does the sender give for writing Letter 9?

5. How does Heloise say that the thing that pleases God is manifested?

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