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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For Stoics, what are two basic elements found in any object?
(a) Mass and reason.
(b) Sound and fury.
(c) Matter and cause.
(d) Weight and size.

2. Who especially does Seneca consider when he makes his move to the country?
(a) His mother.
(b) Himself.
(c) His wife.
(d) His father.

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

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

5. According to Seneca in Letter LXXXVIII, what should man not strive to become?
(a) A religious man.
(b) A learned man.
(c) A pleasant man.
(d) A good man.

6. Who is the author of all that happens in the world, according to Seneca?
(a) Seneca.
(b) God.
(c) Zeus and Jupiter.
(d) Yourself.

7. According to Seneca, who can truly appreciate wisdom?
(a) Teachers of all sorts.
(b) Only the philosopher.
(c) Scholars who are well-read.
(d) Only priests and oracles.

8. What does Seneca name as never too great for a man to endure, thanks to nature's way of minimizing them?
(a) Loves.
(b) Pains.
(c) Choices.
(d) Heartbreaks.

9. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?
(a) Theory.
(b) Religion.
(c) Examples.
(d) Logic.

10. Who wrote the Aeneid?
(a) Seneca.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Homer.
(d) Petronius.

11. What does Seneca say is the greatest of all arts?
(a) Painting.
(b) Religion.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Wisdom.

12. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature?
(a) Greed.
(b) War.
(c) Love.
(d) The Iliad.

13. Who objects to Posidinus' claims about past rulers and technological inventions?
(a) Plato.
(b) Lucilius.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Vatia.

14. What creates certain habits of study and thought which are actually useful?
(a) Liberal arts.
(b) Business studies.
(c) Fine arts.
(d) Sciences.

15. What does Seneca say that many people find attractive for the wrong reasons?
(a) Religion.
(b) Politics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Outward appearance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is duty that Seneca states all men are bound to eventually carry out?

2. According to Seneca in Letter LXXXVIII, what should man strive to become?

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

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

5. Who says there are five causes?

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