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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 say of the definition of true happiness?
(a) It is accumulating wealth.
(b) There are many opinions on what it is.
(c) There is only one.
(d) There is no way to know it.

2. What does Philosophy argue bodily pleasure being identical to happiness would mean for animals?
(a) Their bodies would be perfect.
(b) They wouln't feel anything.
(c) They would be human.
(d) They would be happy.

3. What should Boethius keep in mind concerning his money?
(a) That his wife was using too much of it.
(b) How much he liked it.
(c) That people were jealous of him.
(d) How weak his hold on it was.

4. What does Boethius say of the answer found by people trying to get out of the foreknowing conundrum?
(a) It is not sufficient.
(b) It is sufficient.
(c) It is perfect.
(d) It is incomplete.

5. What is the good man?
(a) Free.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Committed.
(d) A slave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman praise Boethius for in Book 1?

2. Who condemned the senate according to Boethius?

3. According to Philosophy, what are the remarks Philosophy makes about Fortune at the beginning of the Book II?

4. What did God order the universe to seek when he created it?

5. What does Philosophy tell Boethius after giving her example of happiness?

(see the answer key)

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