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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fortune love to do to men comfortable with their possessions?
(a) Upset them.
(b) Reward their perseverance.
(c) Make them loan more money.
(d) Give them more money.

2. How is Boethius feeling after the woman's speech about the ups and downs of Fortune?
(a) Happy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Sleepy.
(d) Confused.

3. What does Fortune take pleasure in according to Philosophy?
(a) Its resourcefulness.
(b) Its unreliability.
(c) Its greed.
(d) Its own predictability.

4. How does the woman speak to Boethius?
(a) In verse.
(b) Normally.
(c) In song.
(d) With gestures.

5. What is stitched on the woman's clothes?
(a) A list of Rome's gods.
(b) A star and letter Alpha.
(c) The letters Pi and Theta.
(d) A cross and letter Theta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who condemned the senate according to Boethius?

2. Who is the woman in the cell with Boethius?

3. What does Philosophy tell Boethius about his situation?

4. Why does Philosophy say no-one can truly be happy in life?

5. What type of man is unmoved by what happens to him, good or bad?

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