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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 claim does Philosophy say is the least convincing?
(a) Fame will make you rich.
(b) Fame brings happiness.
(c) Boethius can be saved.
(d) A king can be honorable.

2. How does Fortune sometimes appear to be according to Philosophy?
(a) Sad.
(b) Salacious.
(c) Happy.
(d) Malicious.

3. What does everyone agree is just?
(a) Good men deserve to be poor.
(b) Punishment of a crime.
(c) God has little influence on men.
(d) Evil people have all the power.

4. What topic does Philosophy say is enormous?
(a) Providence.
(b) God.
(c) Luck.
(d) Hatred.

5. Whose plan does Lady Philosophy argue everything always goes according to?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Boethius.
(c) God.
(d) Fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the imperfect the product of, according to Metaphysics?

2. What does Philosophy say of the bodily pleasures?

3. What does Philosophy say about people giving popular acclaim?

4. What does Philosophy say of man's happiness compared to the happiness of a beast?

5. Who wouldn't care about a politician title away from Rome?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has nature ordained, according to Book III and what does this say about man's goal?

2. According to Book IV, how does happiness relate to being powerful or powerless?

3. How does "The Consolation of Philosophy" define fate?

4. How does God use providence?

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

6. Why does the woman correct Boethius' statement about wishing that the evil would lose the ability to persecute the good?

7. Why do the five goods eventually disappoint their possessors?

8. What is the error that men run into?

9. 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)?

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

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