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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. Who ran away in Letter CVII that made Lucilius grieve?
(a) His oldest daughter.
(b) Some of his slaves.
(c) His wife and kids.
(d) His dog.

2. Which line of studies does Seneca say tends to have a special temptation to vanity?
(a) Business and politics.
(b) Sciences.
(c) Liberal arts.
(d) History.

3. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?
(a) Religion.
(b) Examples.
(c) Theory.
(d) Logic.

4. How does Seneca spend most of his day?
(a) Exercising.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Praying.
(d) In study.

5. According to Seneca in Letter LXXXVIII, what should man strive to become?
(a) A religious man.
(b) A learned man.
(c) A good man.
(d) A pleasant man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What creates certain habits of study and thought which are actually useful?

2. According to Seneca, what is death?

3. According to his criticism in Letter CVIII, what does Seneca say literary scholars should do with philosophical theories?

4. According to Seneca, where are the sharpest pains?

5. Who wrote the Iliad?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Plato add to Aristotle's theory of causation?

2. Which city burned and how did it affect Seneca?

3. Who was Scipio and why does Seneca praise him?

4. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

5. List and explain three types of people who, according to Seneca, find philosophy attractive for the wrong reasons.

6. What does Seneca say about people who have an excessive concern with pain?

7. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

8. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature and what was the result?

9. Why does Seneca object to Posidinus' claims that philosopher's ruled during the Golden Age and were responsible for many new technological innovations?

10. What fault does Seneca find in Zeno's logic that a good man will not drink to excess?

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