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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. Who spends hours quibbling over meaningless logical puzzles, according to Seneca?
(a) Lucilius.
(b) Seneca and Lucilius together.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Many so-called philosophers.

2. According to Letter XCI, what town was destroyed by fire?
(a) Vatican City.
(b) Lyons.
(c) Croton.
(d) Rome.

3. Why do people become slaves, according to Seneca?
(a) It is by their fortune.
(b) It is punishment for a crime.
(c) It is their choice.
(d) It is by their merit.

4. According to Letter XLI, what lives in each man's soul?
(a) Divine power.
(b) Dark thoughts.
(c) Evil.
(d) Desire.

5. What does Seneca say many slave-owners foolishly think?
(a) That it is to their credit that they are the slave-owners.
(b) That the slaves will care for their families once the owner dies.
(c) That their slaves must love and respect them.
(d) That they will never have to work again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an example of unrehearsed communication?

2. How should an owner be seen by his slaves, according to Seneca?

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

4. How did Seneca's ancestors treat their slaves?

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

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