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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters LXXXIII, LXXXVI, and LXXXVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Seneca give advice about coping with in Letter LXXVIII?
(a) Illness.
(b) Religious faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Grief.

2. In a large group of people, how might their vices seem, according to Seneca?
(a) Unappealing.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Comical.
(d) Attractive.

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

4. What is the unusual transgression about, ending Letter LXXXVI?
(a) Transplanting sheep organs.
(b) Transplanting trees.
(c) Transplanting flowers.
(d) Transplanting human organs.

5. What is symptomatic of excessive attachment to the body, according to Seneca?
(a) Frequent baths.
(b) Excessive primping.
(c) Excessive concern with pain.
(d) Frequent trips to community baths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Seneca say cannot be learned only through reading?

2. In Letter LXXXIII, whose logic does Seneca question?

3. Who finances the celebration that is held at the time Letter XVII is written?

4. Why, according to Seneca, shouldn't old age frighten a wise man?

5. What kind of ailments does Seneca say become more obvious as they worsen?

(see the answer key)

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