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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 nature ordain everything to do according to Philosophy?
(a) To be fruitful.
(b) To be kind to one another.
(c) To seek its own natural goal/end.
(d) To explore new territory.

2. What do evil men lose?
(a) Freedom and their humanity.
(b) Free will and knowledge.
(c) Virtue and free will.
(d) Their stubborn nature.

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

4. What does Philosophy say of honor?
(a) That every man should have some.
(b) That it doesn't guarantee happiness or virtue.
(c) That it guarantees virtue.
(d) That is not worth much.

5. What does Philosophy think Boethius feels about fortune?
(a) That fortune is a good companion.
(b) That fortune changed her attitude toward him
(c) That philosophy is a good friend.
(d) That fortune did the right thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. If God knows the future, what might it imply about mankind?

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

3. Why will a man that knows he will sit on a chair sit on the chair?

4. What does Philosophy say could be wrong with a man of riches in her example about not being able to be truly happy?

5. What does God allow according to Boethius?

(see the answer key)

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