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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters LXV, LXXVII, and LXXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Seneca, generally presents more opportunity to be tempted away from virtuous living?
(a) Theater.
(b) Mass crowds.
(c) Religion.
(d) Public hangings.

2. In Letter XII, what does Seneca notice about one of his properties?
(a) It is delapidated.
(b) It is not rented.
(c) The tenants changed it without permission.
(d) It has burned down.

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

4. Who does Seneca thank for sending him a book?
(a) His mother.
(b) Petronius.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Lucilius.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Seneca, what does an inordinate attachment to wealth or public opinion make a man?

2. How does noise affect Seneca's ability to study?

3. How does Seneca say all people -- young and old alike -- should live each day?

4. How does Seneca say a wise man should act toward the festival celebrated in Letter XVII?

5. According to Seneca as he comforts Lucilius, what is the death of a friend a reminder to do?

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