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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters LIII, LIV, LV, LVI, and LXIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Seneca say a wise man should act toward the festival celebrated in Letter XVII?
(a) Should avoid it all together, stay away.
(b) Should avoid excess, but participate.
(c) Should abstain from drinking, but over eat.
(d) Should enjoy all to its fullest.

2. What is the topic of Letter III?
(a) Money.
(b) Greed.
(c) Investing.
(d) Friendship.

3. What does Seneca recount taking a ride on in Letter LV?
(a) A horse.
(b) A large unnamed creature.
(c) His sedan chair.
(d) A chariot.

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

5. What is there little value in if one cannot share it with friends, according to Seneca?
(a) Ceremonies.
(b) Gladiator battles.
(c) Money.
(d) Learning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seneca says though one may suffer more or less in life, the suffering is surrounded by what on either side?

2. In Letter XII, what does Seneca's property remind him?

3. What has suffered a great deal between Letters XII and XXVII?

4. What is an oxymoron?

5. What does Lucilius ask Seneca to include in his letters?

(see the answer key)

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