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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Abelard answer Heloise's second letter in Letter 5?
2. What explanation does Abelard offer for his trials?
3. What does Abelard say Heloise became when she became his wife?
4. What does Heloise say will prevent her from praying for Abelard?
5. What did William of Champeaux do at the beginning of Abelard's career?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Abelard's arguments in favor of an abbess in charge of the convent.
2. What does Abelard say about the Cumean Sibyl?
3. How does Abelard say errors must be corrected?
4. To what does Heloise appeal, in Letter 6, in justifying her argument?
5. What does Heloise say about the men who call her chaste?
6. What does Heloise say about her burdens in Letter 6?
7. In what way does Heloise say Abelard is in debt to her?
8. Why does the author of Letter 9 say Abelard retreated to Cluny?
9. What does Heloise say she did on Abelard's sake?
10. Why does Heloise say there should be different standards for women?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate the opposition Abelard and Heloise faced throughout their marriage. How would you characterize their enemies? What were they bent on, and why did they oppose Abelard and Heloise? Why did they take the tactics they took, in opposing them? What made harsher or more lenient tactics less preferable?
Essay Topic 2
How would Abelard and Heloise answer Nietzsche's claim that Christian morality is slave morality that celebrates the weakness of the followers as against the master morality that celebrates the strength of the masters?
Essay Topic 3
Evaluate the story of Abelard and Heloise as a love story. Is it compelling, tragic, uplifting, unique? Is it an allegory for all lovers or a historical document pertaining to two people alone?
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