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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Discussions at Tusculum," what do the Stoics argue is necessary to be happy?
(a) To be old.
(b) To be rich.
(c) To be young.
(d) To be morally good.

2. According to Cicero, how was the Stoics view counter-intuitive?
(a) It contradicts Cicero's opinions.
(b) It denounces material importance.
(c) This view suggests one can be happy with no external or bodily goods.
(d) It denounces relationship importance.

3. In "On Duties," which book is only reproduced in this particular selection of readings?
(a) Book II.
(b) Book IV.
(c) Book I.
(d) Book III.

4. When did Cicero do his writing, according to the introduction?
(a) During the 60s B.C.
(b) Between the late 60s-40s B.C.
(c) Between the 60s and early 50s B.C.
(d) Between the 60s and early 50s A.D.

5. In "On Duties," how will rulers win goodwill?
(a) With wealth.
(b) With truthfulness.
(c) With self restraint and self denial.
(d) With power and compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cicero resist being identified with, according to Grant?

2. What are external goods merely considered to be by Cicero?

3. What does the book reproduced in "On Duties" concern itself with?

4. According to the introduction, how did the younger Seneca receive Cicero?

5. Who was Cicero worried about, according to the introduction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are 'preferables,' 'unpreferables,' and 'indifferents' according to the Stoics?

2. What did the Stoics believe made a happy life and did their belief mean?

3. What is the importance of stability in external goods, according to "Discussions at Tusculum"?

4. What did Cicero's work return to in "On Duties" and why?

5. How did Cicero contradict the entire first chapter "Discussions at Tusculum"?

6. What were Cicero's attitudes about human rights?

7. What did the Greeks believe made a happy life?

8. Tell why Cicero didn't identify with one type of philosophical school.

9. What is the setting of "Discussions at Tusculum"?

10. How did Cicero feel about statesmanship?

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