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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. What does Abelard affirm to Heloise?
2. What does Heloise say she feels in Abelard's absence?
3. What did Abelard do with his inheritance?
4. How does Heloise open her first letter to Abelard?
5. What does Abelard say is a danger to Heloise's body?
Short Essay Questions
1. What stance does Abelard take in Letter 5?
2. What occasioned Heloise's letter to Abelard?
3. What does Peter the Venerable send to Heloise in the final letter?
4. Who was Anselm of Laon and how did he figure in Abelard's career?
5. What does Heloise say about her burdens in Letter 6?
6. Describe what Fulbert's family did to Abelard.
7. Why does Heloise say there should be different standards for women?
8. Where did Abelard go after he went to St. Denis?
9. How does Peter the Venerable greet Heloise in Letter 10?
10. What does Abelard assure to Heloise in Letter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the effect of the letters between Abelard and Heloise? Describe the consequences of their correspondence, in terms of their own lives, and in terms of the lives of the monks and nuns they knew, and in terms of the monastic order.
Essay Topic 2
Describe who would find this work interesting and useful, and describe as well what uses this book could be put to? What questions does it answer? Are the letters of Abelard and Heloise artwork, philosophy, church history, or personal correspondence? Which predominates?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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