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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 Seneca called the past age?
(a) The Platonic Age.
(b) The Silver Age.
(c) The Bronze Age.
(d) The Golden Age.

2. According to Letter LXXXVIII, how important is the knowledge of the liberal arts to Stoicism?
(a) Very important.
(b) Vital - can't understand Stoicism without a full liberal arts background.
(c) More important than even religion.
(d) Not at all.

3. What tends to either not last very long or to at least have periods of subsidence?
(a) Marriages.
(b) Severe pains.
(c) Grief.
(d) Studies of other philosophies.

4. How can a person be prepared for any tragedy that might happen?
(a) Calm events = calm people.
(b) Imagine all the situations, then you won't be surprised.
(c) Plan every last detail so you have a firm schedule.
(d) Don't serve wine at any event.

5. Whose first instinct is it to incorporate wisdom into his life and actions?
(a) The teacher.
(b) The literary scholar.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. For Stoics, what are two basic elements found in any object?

2. What affects Seneca's exercise time according to Letter LXXXIII?

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

4. What does Seneca consider to be the gift of gods?

5. Who is Scipio?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Seneca's criticism of the typical liberal arts scholar?

2. What lesson can be learned from the city that burned?

3. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

4. How, according to Seneca, are life and philosophy both the gifts of the gods?

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

6. What is the concept of causation according to Aristotle?

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

8. What is the purpose of technology, according to Seneca?

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

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

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