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Saturday Stoic Quiz #1

Question 1 of 6

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Stoicism is all about repressing emotions.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 2 of 6

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The founder of Stoicism was Marcus Aurelius,

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 3 of 6

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There is now a fair amount of evidence that practising Stoicism is beneficial in a number of ways for many people.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 4 of 6

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The Serenity Prayer (God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference) is associated with Alcoholics Anonymous and something very similar can be found in Stoicism a couple of thousand years earlier

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 5 of 6

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Who said this
“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

Select one of the following:

  • Epictetus

  • Marcus Aurelius

  • Seneca

  • Donald Robertson

  • Donald Trump

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Question 6 of 6

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One of the best books ever written on anger management was written nearly 2000 years ago by the Stoic philosopher Seneca.
Which of these is NOT a quote from Seneca's book On Anger?

Select one of the following:

  • The greatest remedy for anger is delay

  • Some angry people … have been benefited by looking at the glass: they have been struck by so great an alteration in their own appearance: they have been, as it were, brought into their own presence and have not recognized themselves

  • Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

  • Anger is a temporary madness

  • The sword of justice is ill-placed in the hands of an angry man

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