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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, who can truly appreciate wisdom?

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

3. To whom will a person who is well-acquainted with poetry or history often be impressive?

4. What includes the studies of literature, rhetoric and history?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Scipio and why does Seneca praise him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the festival Saturnalia. When was it held, what did it celebrate, etc? What is its relationship to a particular Christian holiday?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain the Stoic concepts of soul.

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