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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Letters CIV, CV, CVII, and CVIII.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature?
(a) Greed.
(b) Love.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) War.

3. According to Seneca as he comforts Lucilius, what is the death of a friend a reminder to do?
(a) To send notes to the grieving family.
(b) Not to get close to people because they will only die.
(c) To take better care of yourself.
(d) To appreciate your friends in life.

4. What does Seneca say many slave-owners foolishly think?
(a) That the slaves will care for their families once the owner dies.
(b) That their slaves must love and respect them.
(c) That they will never have to work again.
(d) That it is to their credit that they are the slave-owners.

5. What does Seneca admit that he cares less about as he ages?
(a) His appearance.
(b) His financial affairs.
(c) His friends.
(d) His hair.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the Aeneid?

3. Which line of studies does Seneca say tends to have a special temptation to vanity?

4. What virtue does Seneca say does not perish or disappoint?

5. Who is the author of all that happens in the world, according to Seneca?

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