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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. How much duty does Seneca say one must must fulfill before his life ends?

2. Who says there are five causes?

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

4. How does Seneca spend most of his day?

5. What kind of events does Seneca say upsets people the most?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss the value of a liberal arts education according to Seneca.

Essay Topic 3

Outline the history of Stoicism.

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