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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Philosophy do after Boethius tells her what he wished about the evil?
(a) She leaves for a while.
(b) She corrects him.
(c) She agrees with him.
(d) She tells him about his family's sins.

2. What does Philosophy say animals devote themselves to entirely?
(a) Bettering themselves.
(b) Caring for their body.
(c) Eating.
(d) Wanting to become human.

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

4. 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

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

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. How does Fortune sometimes appear to be according to Philosophy?

3. What is truly miserable for an evil man to do, according to Philosophy's argument?

4. What does everyone agree is just?

5. Who does Philosophy say was famous for his wicked lifestyle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the five goods eventually disappoint their possessors?

2. In Book IV, what can be concluded about the wicked being punished?

3. According to Book IV, how does happiness relate to being powerful or powerless?

4. How are actions their own rewards, as stated in Book IV?

5. What is the error that men run into?

6. Why do God's methods defy human reason?

7. What does fame come from, according to Book III of "The Consolation of Philosophy"?

8. How would the desire of bodily pleasures balance themselves out?

9. How does God use providence?

10. What is the essence of true happiness as introduced at the beginning of Book III?

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