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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 does Seneca say slaves should be corrected?
(a) Verbally.
(b) Mental torture.
(c) By taking something away, like food.
(d) With physical punishment.

2. When does Seneca say that men that began to claim pieces of land as their property?
(a) When greed entered the hearts of mankind.
(b) When gods told them to do so.
(c) When they became more self-aware.
(d) When the emperor began giving it away.

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

4. According to Seneca in Letter XXXIII, what does Stoic writing generally lack?
(a) Use of Latin.
(b) Quotable quotes.
(c) Grammatical errors.
(d) Punctuation.

5. Who suggests the correspondence between Seneca and his student should increase?
(a) Marcus Aurelius.
(b) Lucilius.
(c) Zeno.
(d) Seneca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of people does Seneca warn Lucilius to steer clear of in Letter XLVIII?

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

3. How long does it take Seneca to read the book he mentions in Letter XLVI?

4. According to Letter XL, what clue do people give as to whether they are organized or disorganized?

5. What do the friends Seneca talks about in Letter LXV compare to concepts by Aristotle and Plato?

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