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Letters from a Stoic Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium Test | Final Test - Medium

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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. What does Seneca say prepares the mind for philosophy?
(a) Liberal arts.
(b) Religion.
(c) Fine arts.
(d) Meditations.

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

3. According to Letter XCI, what town was destroyed by fire?
(a) Croton.
(b) Vatican City.
(c) Lyons.
(d) Rome.

4. What happens to Seneca's work ethic and studies once he moves to the country?
(a) He studies less, but says it really isn't distraction since he is focusing on nature.
(b) They improve.
(c) He stops all together.
(d) He finds himself distracted by nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In his example of suffering for the sake of knowledge, who does Seneca say was executed for blasphemy?

2. How does Seneca spend most of his day?

3. According to Seneca, who can truly appreciate wisdom?

4. Who especially does Seneca consider when he makes his move to the country?

5. What affects Seneca's exercise time according to Letter LXXXIII?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Scipio and why does Seneca praise him?

2. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

3. What does Seneca say causes envy and how can envy be avoided?

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

5. List and explain three types of people who, according to Seneca, find philosophy attractive for the wrong reasons.

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

7. What is Zeno's logic that a drunk man is not a good man?

8. Which city burned and how did it affect Seneca?

9. What is the concept of causation according to Aristotle?

10. Why does Seneca move to the country and what effects result from the move?

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