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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 the woman's bearing betray according to Boethius?
(a) Where she comes from.
(b) How ancient she is.
(c) Who her parents are.
(d) How young she is.

2. What does the woman disagree with Boethius about in Book 1?
(a) That he can't escape from prison.
(b) That the affairs of men are beyond Divine Providence.
(c) That God is all powerful.
(d) That the earth is flat.

3. What does Philosophy tell Boethius not do while she exposes her arguments in Book II?
(a) Run away.
(b) Pay attention.
(c) Be happy.
(d) Be destitute.

4. What does God control no matter the distance?
(a) Men.
(b) Time.
(c) Everything.
(d) Fate.

5. What does Philosophy reply when Boethius tells her that his pain is real and tangible?
(a) That she can heal him with her hands.
(b) That the spirit has power over the body.
(c) That she has not gotten to the substance of her treatment.
(d) That she is not a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Boethius in jail?

2. What does Philosophy say is the next part of the conversation?

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

4. What is the evil man?

5. What does Philosophy say of chance being a random event?

(see the answer key)

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