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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. What do people who attend the celebration discussed in Letter XVII do?
(a) Feast and get drunk.
(b) Discuss town issues.
(c) Praise Seneca.
(d) Watch acrobats and clowns.

2. What type of studies does Letter XII use as an example?
(a) Singing studies.
(b) Religious studies.
(c) Inner studies of oneself.
(d) Drama studies.

3. What does Seneca say about the Stoic troubled by no external concerns?
(a) The body.
(b) The mind.
(c) The soul.
(d) The heart.

4. Which philosopher has a positive theory about "cheerful poverty?"
(a) Plato.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Epicurius.
(d) Aristotle.

5. In Letter XVI, what kind of life is said to have no direction?
(a) Philosophical.
(b) Unphilosophicla.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Hard working.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seneca recount taking a ride on in Letter LV?

2. What is an example of unrehearsed communication?

3. Which city does Seneca say is so filled with wicked people that it could be a threat to even a wise man's soul?

4. According to Seneca, what are people who are easily disturbed by noises lacking?

5. Seneca states that a virtuous man is not concerned with the loss of a friend because:

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