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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 Letter LXV, how do friends get Seneca to stop reading and writing while he is sick?

2. What does Seneca admit that he cares less about as he ages?

3. According to Letter LXXXVIII, how important is the knowledge of the liberal arts to Stoicism?

4. Why does Seneca move to the country?

5. According to his criticism in Letter CVIII, what does Seneca say literary scholars do with philosophical theories?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What advice does Seneca give for staying safe?

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

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

7. What is the Stoic concept of causation?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the lives and deaths of Socrates and Seneca.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Stoic view of death and what happens after death.

Essay Topic 3

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

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