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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Philosophy say the claim she made about wicked people follows?
(a) Her intuition.
(b) Boethius arguments
(c) What has already been proven.
(d) God's rules.

2. What sometimes defies human reason and understanding?
(a) God's methods.
(b) Man's lust for power.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Women.

3. What does Philosophy say of man's happiness compared to the happiness of a beast?
(a) They are both based on eating and escaping predators.
(b) It is easier to find.
(c) It is higher and more obscure.
(d) It is equivalent.

4. Why do the wicked fail to be happy?
(a) They choose the wrong means to be happy.
(b) They are following the old gods.
(c) They are not spreading the word of God around them.
(d) God does not recognize them.

5. What did the politician in the example given by Philosophy lose?
(a) All their money.
(b) Respect of the people.
(c) Their office.
(d) Their will to lead.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Boethius qualify the fact that good men's worldly possessions can be taken away and evil men's possessions can increase?

2. What is the ultimate goal of God when using the actions of the wicked?

3. What ability would Boethius like the evil to lose?

4. What does Philosophy do after Boethius tells her what he wished about the evil?

5. What claim does Philosophy say is the least convincing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Book III claim about the insufficiency of achieving a high office?

2. What is the conclusion about the happiness and man's participation in happiness?

3. What is the essence of true happiness as introduced at the beginning of Book III?

4. What is implied about the choices of men and the problem of evil?

5. In light of Christian doctrine, what is the significance of the statement that "there are, some of them extremely harsh, and some, I think, with a purifying mercy"(124)?

6. How are actions their own rewards, as stated in Book IV?

7. What does the woman remark about randomness and order?

8. Why do God's methods defy human reason?

9. What are some of the opinions about what the highest good is, according to the woman?

10. In Book IV, what can be concluded about the wicked being punished?

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