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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 argue bodily pleasure being identical to happiness would mean for animals?
(a) They would be happy.
(b) They wouln't feel anything.
(c) They would be human.
(d) Their bodies would be perfect.

2. How does Boethius qualify the fact that good men's worldly possessions can be taken away and evil men's possessions can increase?
(a) Unfitting.
(b) Maddening.
(c) Good for the evil.
(d) Normal.

3. What did God order the universe to seek when he created it?
(a) Balance
(b) Good.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Peace.

4. What does Philosophy say of the bodily pleasures?
(a) They are necessary.
(b) They are free.
(c) They tend to be bad for you.
(d) They tend to balance themselves out.

5. What claim does Philosophy say is the least convincing?
(a) Fame will make you rich.
(b) Fame brings happiness.
(c) Boethius can be saved.
(d) A king can be honorable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Philosophy say about the goods she lists at the start of Book 3?

2. What does Philosophy say of the definition of true happiness?

3. What is Philosophy comparing God to?

4. What cannot be seen by the finite intellect of man?

5. What new need does a rich man have in the example given by Philosophy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some of the opinions about what the highest good is, according to the woman?

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

4. What is the error that men run into?

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

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

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

8. Why is Boethius still troubled at the beginning of Book IV and what does Lady Philosophy say?

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

10. Why should the five goods not be entirely dismissed?

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