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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. According to Seneca, what should a person use to guide his life?

2. What tends to either not last very long or to at least have periods of subsidence?

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

4. Who does Seneca point out (in Letter CIV) had a wife and children who constantly nagged him?

5. Why does Seneca move to the country?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which city burned and how did it affect Seneca?

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

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

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. Who was Scipio and why does Seneca praise him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is philosophy? What are ethics and what is the importance of ethics in philosophy?

Essay Topic 2

Outline the history of Stoicism.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Seneca's views on the importance of speech pace.

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