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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. For Stoics, what are two basic elements found in any object?
(a) Sound and fury.
(b) Mass and reason.
(c) Matter and cause.
(d) Weight and size.

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

3. Who wrote the "Aeneid?"
(a) Plato.
(b) Petronius.
(c) Odyseus.
(d) Homer.

4. According to Seneca, where are the sharpest pains?
(a) In the smallest area of the body.
(b) In the nose.
(c) In the eye/temple area because they are close to the brain.
(d) In the heart.

5. According to his criticism in Letter CVIII, what does Seneca say literary scholars do with philosophical theories?
(a) Help spread them to the masses.
(b) Ruin them by writing them down incorrectly.
(c) Dissect the words without garnering the meaning.
(d) Read them over and over.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Seneca, what destroyed man's harmonic relationship with nature?

2. According to Seneca, what was the goal of technological inventions of the past age?

3. What does Seneca say is the greatest of all arts?

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. What does Plato add to Aristotle's theory of causation?

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

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

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

5. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

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

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

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

9. Why does Seneca say the Stoic account of causation is better than both Aristotle's and Plato's?

10. How does Seneca feel about moving to improve studies?

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