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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Philosophy reply when Boethius tells her that his pain is real and tangible?
(a) That the spirit has power over the body.
(b) That she can heal him with her hands.
(c) That she has not gotten to the substance of her treatment.
(d) That she is not a doctor.

2. What is the imperfect the product of, according to Metaphysics?
(a) The perfect.
(b) Men.
(c) Progress.
(d) Ignorant.

3. What is truly miserable for an evil man to do, according to Philosophy's argument?
(a) To leave Rome.
(b) To be caught.
(c) To continue his evil ways.
(d) Not to use his power.

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

5. In Book V, how does Philosophy define what it means to be free?
(a) It means to do what one wants or to be happy.
(b) We do whatever we want, even if wrong.
(c) We are free in God.
(d) It means to live virtuously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose plan does Lady Philosophy argue everything always goes according to?

2. What does Boethius say of chance in the system Philosophy just described?

3. Who is seduced by the ups and downs of Fortune according to the woman?

4. What does Philosophy tell Boethius concerning what he thinks about Fortune?

5. What does everyone agree is just?

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