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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. Who says there are five causes?

2. What phrase best sums up Letter XCI?

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

4. In Letter LXXXIII, whose logic does Seneca question?

5. According to Posidinus, who ruled in the past time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

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

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

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

7. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Zeno's life and his importance to Stoicism.

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss "apatheia."

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the value of a liberal arts education according to Seneca.

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