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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters XC and XCI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Seneca admit that he cares less about as he ages?
(a) His appearance.
(b) His friends.
(c) His financial affairs.
(d) His hair.

2. According to Letter XLI, what lives in each man's soul?
(a) Dark thoughts.
(b) Desire.
(c) Divine power.
(d) Evil.

3. What does Seneca name as never too great for a man to endure, thanks to nature's way of minimizing them?
(a) Loves.
(b) Heartbreaks.
(c) Choices.
(d) Pains.

4. According to Seneca, what is man's only pride?
(a) His soul.
(b) His face.
(c) His mind.
(d) His body.

5. What does Seneca consider to be the gift of gods?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Only philosophy.
(c) Both life and philosophy.
(d) Only life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests the correspondence between Seneca and his student should increase?

2. What do the friends Seneca talks about in Letter LXV compare to concepts by Aristotle and Plato?

3. Who says there are four causes?

4. What are Seneca's comments about the book he mentions in Letter XLVI?

5. What tends to either not last very long or to at least have periods of subsidence?

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