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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters LIII, LIV, LV, LVI, and LXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic does Seneca discuss in Letter XL?
(a) Speech.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

2. What is it that Seneca says no human being merits?
(a) A beating.
(b) Love.
(c) Mental torture.
(d) Correction.

3. In Letter XII, what does Seneca's property remind him?
(a) To rebuild closer to water.
(b) That he needs to find new tenants.
(c) That he is aging.
(d) To be clearer in his next lease.

4. Who spends hours quibbling over meaningless logical puzzles, according to Seneca?
(a) Lucilius.
(b) Many so-called philosophers.
(c) Seneca and Lucilius together.
(d) Seneca.

5. Who, according to Seneca, retired out of fear of being persecuted by the Emperor?
(a) Lucilius.
(b) Himself.
(c) Vatia.
(d) Nero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seneca say about the Stoic troubled by no external concerns?

2. In Letter XII, what does Seneca notice about one of his properties?

3. Seneca states that a virtuous man is not concerned with the loss of a friend because:

4. According to Seneca, what must one seek between extremes in all matters?

5. What do people who attend the celebration discussed in Letter XVII do?

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