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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Scipio volunteer to do?

2. According to Letter XCI, what town was destroyed by fire?

3. Whose first instinct is it to incorporate wisdom into his life and actions?

4. According to Seneca, what is death?

5. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does Seneca give Lucilius about coping with illness and the sometimes severe symptoms that accompany it?

2. What is Zeno's logic that a drunk man is not a good man?

3. Why does Seneca move to the country and what effects result from the move?

4. How does Seneca feel about moving to improve studies?

5. Why does Seneca believe only a philosopher can appreciate wisdom?

6. Why does Seneca say the Stoic account of causation is better than both Aristotle's and Plato's?

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

8. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

9. How, according to Letter LXXXIII, does Seneca spend his day?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Outline the history of Stoicism.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Stoic view of death and what happens after death.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the festival Saturnalia. When was it held, what did it celebrate, etc? What is its relationship to a particular Christian holiday?

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