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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 high office often do to the man seeking it?
(a) Expose his sins.
(b) Make him a better man.
(c) Bring him fame.
(d) Make him rich.

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

3. What doesn't God's knowledge about future events entail?
(a) That everything is predictable.
(b) That the actions of any man are necessary.
(c) That God will intervene to correct a wrong doing.
(d) That a man can know the future.

4. Why would God give power to a good man according to Philosophy?
(a) To test his love in him.
(b) To correct the wicked.
(c) To profit from it.
(d) To become wicked.

5. What is Boethius starting to remember at the start of Book 4?
(a) His happiness.
(b) His enemies names.
(c) Why he wanted political power.
(d) His wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philosophy say about the men only seeking the 5 goods she listed at the start of Book 3?

2. What would entail that men have no free will according to Boethius?

3. What does Philosophy say wealth creates?

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

5. How many "Goods" does philosophy talk about when she explains what men usually think is true happiness?

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