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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 wealth creates?
(a) New enemies.
(b) More occasion to do good.
(c) New worry and needs.
(d) The need for more.

2. According to Philosophy, what does true happiness involve?
(a) Possessing the single high true good.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Knowing that you did good to your friends.
(d) Political power.

3. How does the woman speak to Boethius?
(a) In verse.
(b) In song.
(c) With gestures.
(d) Normally.

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

5. What does Philosophy say the claim she made about wicked people follows?
(a) What has already been proven.
(b) Her intuition.
(c) God's rules.
(d) Boethius arguments

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Philosophy justify her saying that Boethius didn't lose anything?

2. What is the highest possible good according to Philosophy?

3. What does Philosophy say human beings seek?

4. What does Philosophy say of Fortune?

5. What does Boethius say of chance in the system Philosophy just described?

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