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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. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?

2. What does Seneca name as never too great for a man to endure, thanks to nature's way of minimizing them?

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

4. Who objects to Posidinus' claims about past rulers and technological inventions?

5. What is caused by the flaunting of one's possessions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the value of a liberal arts education, according to Seneca?

2. What does Seneca say causes envy and how can envy be avoided?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss Seneca's retirement from Nero's court and his quest for apatheia.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the theories of Stoicism with those of philosopher Epicurus.

Essay Topic 3

Outline the history of Stoicism.

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