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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 is Fortune according to Philosophy?
(a) A benevolent force.
(b) A minor divinity.
(c) A part of God.
(d) A force to be ignored.

2. What does God use to direct things close to him?
(a) His angels.
(b) Providence.
(c) Muses.
(d) Fate.

3. What type of story does Philosophy say pervades history?
(a) Good fortune.
(b) Miserable kind.
(c) Bad luck.
(d) Beautiful women.

4. What would the presence of evil in the world mean for God according to Philosophy?
(a) He only chooses the worthy to receive his blessings.
(b) He does not intervene in mortal life.
(c) He is either evil or powerless.
(d) He wants to maintain some balance.

5. What ability would Boethius like the evil to lose?
(a) To help the weak.
(b) To influence politicians.
(c) To see the future.
(d) To persecute the good.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philosophy argue will happen to the power of an evil man?

2. What does Philosophy say of the wicked?

3. What did God order the universe to seek when he created it?

4. What did the politician in the example given by Philosophy lose?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What metaphysical principle does the woman address and why is this significant?

4. What is implied about the choices of men and the problem of evil?

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

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

7. What is the conclusion about the happiness and man's participation in happiness?

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

9. What has nature ordained, according to Book III and what does this say about man's goal?

10. What is the error that men run into?

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