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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Laelius: On Friendship.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Laelius friends with?
(a) Cicero.
(b) Scipio Africa.
(c) Dante.
(d) Scipio Africanus.

2. What were the followers of Aristotle called?
(a) Aristotlians.
(b) Peripatetics.
(c) Aristotle's followers.
(d) Aristocracy's.

3. According to "Laelius: On Friendship," what makes friendship possible?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Connection.
(c) Desire.
(d) Pain of being attached.

4. What are the contents of the book "On Duties" applicable to?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Present day crisis.
(c) Tyranny.
(d) Friendship.

5. Why is statesmanship destroyed, according to "On Duties"?
(a) It isn't destroyed.
(b) Because the opportunities of statesmanship are destroyed.
(c) Because no one desires it anymore.
(d) Caesar eliminates its possibility to continue.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do true friends not enjoy doing, according to Laelius?

2. What group believed happiness is the enjoyment of pleasure and the avoidance of pain?

3. What does "Laelius: On Friendship" concern itself with?

4. In "Discussions at Tusculum," what do the Stoics argue is necessary to be happy?

5. What did Cicero believe applied to every human, according to Grant?

(see the answer key)

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