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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) Seneca.
(b) Petronius.
(c) Homer.
(d) Virgil.

2. What includes the studies of literature, rhetoric and history?
(a) Bachelor of arts.
(b) Fine arts.
(c) Liberal arts.
(d) Still life art.

3. What is duty that Seneca states all men are bound to eventually carry out?
(a) Civic responsiblity.
(b) Taxes.
(c) Public service.
(d) Death.

4. Which line of studies does Seneca say tends to have a special temptation to vanity?
(a) Liberal arts.
(b) History.
(c) Business and politics.
(d) Sciences.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For Stoics, what are two basic elements found in any object?

2. According to Seneca, who has a misguided interest in philosophy?

3. According to Stoic thought, what is the formless substance with "unlimited potential?"

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

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

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

5. What lesson can be learned from the city that burned?

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

7. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

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

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

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

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