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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. Which of Seneca's friends grieved the burning of the town discussed in Letter XCI?
(a) Tibius.
(b) Flaccus.
(c) Liberalis.
(d) Lucilius.

2. Who especially does Seneca consider when he makes his move to the country?
(a) His wife.
(b) His mother.
(c) Himself.
(d) His father.

3. What does Seneca name as never too great for a man to endure, thanks to nature's way of minimizing them?
(a) Heartbreaks.
(b) Loves.
(c) Choices.
(d) Pains.

4. In his example of suffering for the sake of knowledge, who does Seneca say was executed for blasphemy?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Homer.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

5. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?
(a) Examples.
(b) Religion.
(c) Theory.
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the "Aeneid?"

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

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

4. Who says there are four causes?

5. Who says there are five causes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Seneca's criticism of the typical liberal arts scholar?

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

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