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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. In Letter LXXXIII, whose logic does Seneca question?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Sappho's.
(c) Aristotle's.
(d) Zeno's.
2. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?
(a) Examples.
(b) Logic.
(c) Religion.
(d) Theory.
3. Why does Seneca say he decided not to commit suicide?
(a) He snapped out of his depression.
(b) He was too afraid.
(c) He fell in love with a woman.
(d) For his father's sake.
4. What does Seneca name as never too great for a man to endure, thanks to nature's way of minimizing them?
(a) Heartbreaks.
(b) Choices.
(c) Pains.
(d) Loves.
5. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature?
(a) Love.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) Greed.
(d) War.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a syllogism?
2. What is caused by the flaunting of one's possessions?
3. What creates certain habits of study and thought which are actually useful?
4. Who does Seneca point out (in Letter CIV) had a wife and children who constantly nagged him?
5. What do the friends Seneca talks about in Letter LXV compare to concepts by Aristotle and Plato?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Plato add to Aristotle's theory of causation?
2. What lesson can be learned from the city that burned?
3. How does Seneca feel about moving to improve studies?
4. What is the Stoic concept of causation?
5. What is the concept of causation according to Aristotle?
6. Which city burned and how did it affect Seneca?
7. Why does Seneca say the Stoic account of causation is better than both Aristotle's and Plato's?
8. List and explain three types of people who, according to Seneca, find philosophy attractive for the wrong reasons.
9. Why does Seneca believe only a philosopher can appreciate wisdom?
10. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature and what was the result?
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