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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of events does Seneca say upsets people the most?

2. Who wrote the "Aeneid?"

3. Who is Scipio?

4. According to Seneca in Letter LXXXVIII, what should man strive to become?

5. How much duty does Seneca say one must must fulfill before his life ends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

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

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

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

7. Why does Seneca object to Posidinus' claims that philosopher's ruled during the Golden Age and were responsible for many new technological innovations?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define and discuss "apatheia."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Zeno's life and his importance to Stoicism.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Seneca's life on Nero's court.

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