Deck 13: Love

Question 1

Voltaire's idea that a family is a "group of people who cannot stand the sight of each other" shows

A) the power of blood-ties.
B) the dangers of lust.
C) the power of love that is not physical.
D) an instance of agape.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Conspicuous consumption has its origins in

A) Shakespearean romantic comedy.
B) Victorian ideas of love.
C) eighteenth-century theater.
D) medieval love poetry.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The goliards were

A) unfaithful husbands from eighteenth-century opera.
B) students preparing for the priesthood who sang songs with erotic content.
C) followers of platonic love.
D) medieval poets from the Middle East.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The envy the speaker expresses of the lovers in John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is an example of

A) the pursuit of lust.
B) unconditional love.
C) the fleeting nature of mortal love.
D) platonic love of beauty above all else.

Question 5

The Song of Solomon in the Hebrew Bible celebrates

A) agape.
B) physical ecstasy.
C) chastity.
D) courtly love

Question 6

The genre of literature in which lovers undertake perilous adventures for the love of a woman is called

A) the romance.
B) the romance novel.
C) romantic comedy.
D) a utopia.

Question 7

The Victorian idea that insists on holding women to a different moral code than men is known as

A) the double standard.
B) courtly love.
C) conspicuous consumption.
D) feminism.

Question 8

Saying a person is like Sancho Panza means he or she is

A) suffering from unrequited love.
B) committed to outdated ideals.
C) recklessly seducing multiple women.
D) deeply loyal and protective of friends.

Question 9

Feminist works of art such as Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles changes concepts of love by

A) insisting that love not be the pivotal event in life.
B) calling for the abolition of marriage.
C) raising the demands on what makes an ideal man.
D) demanding equality in marriage relationships.

Question 10

Dante's inspiration behind and guiding force within the hundred cantos of the Divine Comedy is

A) Beatrice
B) Eleanor.
C) Isolde.
D) Francesca.

Question 11

Lorca's Blood Wedding and The House of Bernarda both show the tragic consequences of

A) unbridled lust.
B) marital infidelity.
C) strong family control over marriage.
D) defying the wishes of parents.

Question 12

Nathanial Hawthorne's story "The Birthmark," in which a husband's attempt to perfect his wife's beauty results in her death, is an example of

A) an argument for agape.
B) a critique of romantic comedy.
C) the limits of platonic love.
D) the wages of lust.

Question 13

Filial piety is an important feature of

A) romantic comedies.
B) the romance.
C) utopias.
D) the works of Confucius.

Question 14

For Plato, the highest form of love was

A) between two sexual partners regardless of gender.
B) friendship.
C) intense physical passion.
D) love of the beautiful.

Question 15

A set of aristocratic rules for conducting romance established in the Middle Ages is known as

A) courtly love.
B) double standard.
C) eros.
D) goliard.

Question 16

Which of the following brought the idea of the heroine worshiped for her purity to secular literature?

A) romance novels
B) Mariolatry
C) courtly love
D) the romance

Question 17

One of the major literary advances in love of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has been the

A) rejection of romantic love.
B) rejection of marriage.
C) open and sympathetic treatment of same-sex love.
D) renewal of the ideals of platonic love.

Question 18

The work that glorifies a serial seducer and adulterer is

A) One Thousand and One Nights.
B) Don Quixote.
C) The Courtier.
D) Don Giovanni.

Question 19

The myth of Venus and Adonis shows

A) the turmoil of presenting the woman as sexual aggressor in stories.
B) the double standard governing women and men.
C) the longevity of true love.
D) that love between mortals and immortals is impossible.

Question 20

Titania's love for the donkey-headed character Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, is an example of

A) platonic love.
B) courtly love.
C) eros.
D) agape.

Question 21

Choose a recent representation of modern love from a film, novel, song, or play and discuss what type of love (courtly, eros, agape, platonic) the work of art seems to embody. According to the work, has loved changed or do the same concepts apply?
I. Name a work of art that represents a love affair.
II. Identify and explain the type of love depicted in it.
III. Discuss love today based on this model.

Question 22

Describe chivalry.

Question 23

Discuss the roles that eros and agape play in the modern understanding of marriage and love. Describe the relationship between the two in a marriage.
I. Define the role eros plays in the modern concept of marriage.
II. Discuss the role agape plays in the modern concept of marriage.
III. Define the relationship between the two forms of love within a marriage.

Question 24

What does eros mean?

Question 25

Describe Mariolatry and its function.

Question 26

William Congreve's The Way of the World and courtly love are both based on the "rules of the game." Define the rules of the game and the concept of courtly love in Congreve's work, then lay out the rules of the game for love today. How does love today relate to his play and to courtly love?
I. Describe the rules of courtly love.
II. Describe the rules in Congreve's play.
III. Compile a list of love's rules today.
IV. Discuss how today's love rules relate to the rules in the play and to courtly love.

Question 27

What is agape?

Question 28

What is platonic love?

Question 29

The ancient Hebrews and the Chinese both have distinct models of family. Consider today's families in light of those two traditions. Explain how, in your view, the model of the typical modern family differs from those ancient models.
I. Define ancient Chinese and Hebrew families.
II. Define families today.
III. Discuss how today's families differ from traditional Chinese and Hebrew families.

Question 30

This chapter covers many historical periods in which different kinds of love were practiced and different gender roles observed. Choose a recent representation of modern love from a film, novel, song, or play and discuss how it presents the gender roles in romantic relationships. To what extent does this work show consistency or deviation from traditional gender roles?
I. Name a work of art that represents a love affair.
II. Analyze the gender roles in the love affair.
III. Discuss these gender roles' relationship to traditional gender roles.