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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Iliad?
(a) Petronius.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Homer.

2. Where is Seneca when he writes Letter LXXXVI?
(a) At Lucilius' house.
(b) In the hospital.
(c) On vacation.
(d) In bed at home recuperating.

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

4. How much duty does Seneca say one must must fulfill before his life ends?
(a) 25 years worth.
(b) At least one good deed per day.
(c) No set amount.
(d) Whatever the tax collector chooses to bill him.

5. According to Letter LXXXVIII, how important is the knowledge of the liberal arts to Stoicism?
(a) Not at all.
(b) Very important.
(c) Vital - can't understand Stoicism without a full liberal arts background.
(d) More important than even religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is duty that Seneca states all men are bound to eventually carry out?

3. Who ran away in Letter CVII that made Lucilius grieve?

4. What tends to either not last very long or to at least have periods of subsidence?

5. Who was Posidinius?

Short Essay Questions

1. How, according to Seneca, are life and philosophy both the gifts of the gods?

2. What advice does Seneca give Lucilius about coping with illness and the sometimes severe symptoms that accompany it?

3. Why does Seneca believe only a philosopher can appreciate wisdom?

4. What is the purpose of technology, according to Seneca?

5. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

6. What is the value of a liberal arts education, according to Seneca?

7. How, according to Letter LXXXIII, does Seneca spend his day?

8. What does Seneca say about people who have an excessive concern with pain?

9. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature and what was the result?

10. What fault does Seneca find in Zeno's logic that a good man will not drink to excess?

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