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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters XC and XCI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Letter LXV, how do friends get Seneca to stop reading and writing while he is sick?
(a) By entertaining him with a short play.
(b) By bringing in a card game.
(c) By taking him to a hospital.
(d) By asking him to discuss a philosophical question.

2. What kind of events does Seneca say upsets people the most?
(a) Planned events.
(b) Calm events.
(c) Hysterical events.
(d) Surprise events.

3. Who says there are five causes?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Aristotle.

4. According to Letter XL, what clue do people give as to whether they are organized or disorganized?
(a) Their hairstyle and grooming.
(b) A glance at one's kitchen.
(c) How their house or apartment looks.
(d) How fast or slow they talk.

5. According to Seneca, what is death?
(a) An unconscious state of non-existence or a better state than life.
(b) The gateway to Heaven and an opportunity to meet the gods.
(c) Nothing but an unconscious state of non-existence.
(d) A doorway into a wonderful after life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seneca say the gods give man the capacity for?

2. When does Seneca say that men that began to claim pieces of land as their property?

3. What are Seneca's comments about the book he mentions in Letter XLVI?

4. What is symptomatic of excessive attachment to the body, according to Seneca?

5. According to Seneca in Letter XXXIII, what does Stoic writing generally lack?

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