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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. How much duty does Seneca say one must must fulfill before his life ends?
(a) No set amount.
(b) Whatever the tax collector chooses to bill him.
(c) At least one good deed per day.
(d) 25 years worth.

2. What does Seneca admit that he cares less about as he ages?
(a) His friends.
(b) His hair.
(c) His appearance.
(d) His financial affairs.

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

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

5. What does Seneca say the gods give man the capacity for?
(a) Scientific study.
(b) Love.
(c) Life.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Seneca, what was the goal of technological inventions of the past age?

2. According to Stoic thought, what is the formless substance with "unlimited potential?"

3. According to Letter LXV, how do friends get Seneca to stop reading and writing while he is sick?

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

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

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