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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. How many sources can fame come from according to Philosophy?
(a) 5 sources.
(b) 3 sources.
(c) 2 sources.
(d) 4 sources.
2. What cannot be seen by the finite intellect of man?
(a) The root of human civilization.
(b) The universe.
(c) The laws of physics.
(d) The far reaching consequences of an event.
3. What does Philosophy argue would be the reason why a person would see randomness when it is not random?
(a) When she is not intelligent.
(b) When she is angry.
(c) When she cannot understand the order behind it.
(d) When she doesn't have a big enough sample.
4. How does Boethius qualify the fact that good men's worldly possessions can be taken away and evil men's possessions can increase?
(a) Good for the evil.
(b) Normal.
(c) Unfitting.
(d) Maddening.
5. What does Philosophy say of man's happiness compared to the happiness of a beast?
(a) It is easier to find.
(b) They are both based on eating and escaping predators.
(c) It is higher and more obscure.
(d) It is equivalent.
Short Answer Questions
1. What claim does Philosophy say is the least convincing?
2. What is Philosophy comparing God to?
3. What does Philosophy say the claim she made about wicked people follows?
4. How does Fortune sometimes appear to be according to Philosophy?
5. What does Philosophy say wealth creates?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does God use providence?
2. Why do the five goods eventually disappoint their possessors?
3. How are actions their own rewards, as stated in Book IV?
4. Why should the five goods not be entirely dismissed?
5. What is the essence of true happiness as introduced at the beginning of Book III?
6. Why does the woman correct Boethius' statement about wishing that the evil would lose the ability to persecute the good?
7. What does Book III claim about the insufficiency of achieving a high office?
8. What does the woman liken God to and what is the significance of this analogy?
9. What has nature ordained, according to Book III and what does this say about man's goal?
10. Why is Boethius still troubled at the beginning of Book IV and what does Lady Philosophy say?
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