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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 is duty that Seneca states all men are bound to eventually carry out?
(a) Civic responsiblity.
(b) Death.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Public service.

2. What is it that Seneca says no human being merits?
(a) Correction.
(b) Love.
(c) Mental torture.
(d) A beating.

3. Which of Lucilius' friends dies?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Flaccus.
(c) Claudius.
(d) Tibius.

4. Who says there are five causes?
(a) Seneca.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

5. What kind of people does Seneca warn Lucilius to steer clear of in Letter XLVIII?
(a) Wealthy rulers.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Drunken people.
(d) Quibblers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What includes the studies of literature, rhetoric and history?

2. To whom will a person who is well-acquainted with poetry or history often be impressive?

3. What purpose does fasting serve, according to Seneca?

4. What does Seneca say about the Stoic troubled by no external concerns?

5. What is an oxymoron?

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