Deck 14: Life-Affirmation

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ Death and Transfiguration

Answer 1

17

Question 2

____ 4. In the Hindu faith, the afterlife consists of the memory of a good person who lives on through charitable works and a life well-lived.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ The Big C

Answer 3

9

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ pictorial image of death

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ where jazz funeral can be found

Question 6

____ 2. In the Elysian Fields of Greek mythology, deceased sinners are punished.

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ "Why not me?"

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ A Death in the Family

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ forgiveness ritual

Question 10

____ 3. The students of Socrates laugh and joke after he has been given poison because he insisted they not grieve.

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ could not face aging

Question 12

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ the belief that all events, including how one dies, have been predetermined

Question 13

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ strategy for dealing with death

Question 14

____ 5. To the Buddhist, death is part of the natural way of the universe and is to be accepted.

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ "It is_____ you mourn for."

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ name given to horror stories by British press

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ eternal reward for heroes

Question 18

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ belief that life is essentially good and worth living

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at right. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. Rabbi Kushner
2. life-affirmation
3. penny dreadfuls
4. Elysian Fields
5. hooded figure with scythe
6. Margaret
7. fatalism
8. humor
9. woman dealing with cancer
10. James Agee
11. tashlikh
12. symbolic death
13. Dorian Gray
14. Bertrand Russell
15. Oscar and Lucinda
16. phoenix
17. Richard Strauss
18. New Orleans
19. Marcel Proust
20. forgiveness
21. Dante
___ inner sense of unworth

Question 20

____ 1. According to the chapter, the epic poem Faust, about a man who gives up his soul, makes use of phoenix mythology.

Question 21

____ 6. Both the Greeks and the Romans approved of self-inflicted death.

Question 22

____ 14. The Day of the Dead festival was originally an Aztec custom.

Question 23

____ 15. When an insurance agent says "In the event that something happens to you . . ." he is using a euphemism.

Question 24

"The Way is gained by daily loss" is a line by

A) Lao-tzu.
B) Siddhartha Gautama.
C) John Donne.
D) Sylvia Plath.
E) Robert Lowell.

Question 25

All of the following can be called life-denying, except:

A) replacing a pyramid with a circle.
B) spreading gossip.
C) refusing to buy an outfit considered unsuitable for one's age.
D) refusing to think about death.
E) wanting to learn everything and experience all that life can offer.

Question 26

____ 10. Rufus, the young boy in A Death in the Family, feels a little proud that his father has died and his playmates don't have that excitement in their lives.

Question 27

____ 13. The chapter uses an example from Lord of the Rings in a discussion of beautifying death.

Question 28

Pulp fiction involving lurid tales of haunted houses and bodies found in closets was called this by the British press:

A) fatalistic
B) tabloid junk
C) models of life-affirmation
D) symbolic death
E) penny dreadfuls

Question 29

The film The Road to Wellville is:

A) life-affirming
B) about the desire to stay young
C) about a woman suffering from melanoma
D) the story of the doomed poet Sylvia Plath
E) a horror movie

Question 30

____ 12. Horror tales, murder mysteries, and disaster films teach us that death is random.

Question 31

A god who descends into the underworld, then rises again renewed is an example of:

A) symbolic murder
B) a penny dreadful
C) fatalism
D) a jazz funeral
E) the phoenix model

Question 32

An ancient symbol of life-affirmation is:

A) the Minotaur.
B) the phoenix.
C) the scythe.
D) the helmet.
E) King Arthur's sword.

Question 33

In Faust, the hero makes a bargain with

A) Goethe.
B) Job.
C) Satan.
D) Dante.
E) Mephistopheles.

Question 34

A long symphonic poem telling a story through sound:

A) Milton's Samson Agonistes
B) Strauss's Death and Transfiguration
C) Agee's A Death in the Family
D) Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
E) Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud"

Question 35

The central character in Children of a Lesser God was born deaf, but she

A) is determined to learn to speak like other people.
B) takes her own life.
C) resists all efforts to make her speak.
D) devotes herself to helping the hearing-impaired.
E) rejects a proposal of marriage.

Question 36

This fictional character who perpetually escapes from reality and lives in a fantasy world is

A) Walter Mitty.
B) Frodo.
C) Richard Strauss.
D) Gregory House.
E) Sarah.

Question 37

____ 11. In the short story "The Man Without a Temperament," a husband is the only caretaker of his disabled wife.

Question 38

____ 7. In the television series The Big C, a woman makes sure everyone knows she has cancer so that they can share life's lessons with her.

Question 39

____ 9. According to the chapter, Dante's Divine Comedy is structured according to the phoenix model.

Question 40

____ 8. Mithridates died young because he allowed his servants to put small doses of poison in his food.

Question 41

"It is Margaret you mourn for" was written to

A) the poet John Donne, who had just lost his wife.
B) a young girl saddened when she sees the leaves changing color.
C) Hamlet, whose one and only love has taken her own life.
D) a woman who refuses to get over hersister's disastrous marriage.
E) Sylvia Plath.

Question 42

The Picture of Dorian Gray is about the fear of

A) losing one's fortune.
B) painful death.
C) the loss of creative imagination.
D) commitment.
E) aging.

Question 43

His was a very short life, but he hoped for immortality through his poetry:

A) Donne
B) Shakespeare
C) Keats
D) Goethe
E) Omar Khayyam

Question 44

The poem "Live" is filled with life-affirmation, but this poet was not able to sustain the exhilaration:

A) Plath
B) Hopkins
C) Norman
D) Sexton
E) Donne

Question 45

Celebration in which cakes and candies in the shape of skeletons are eaten at a feast honoring the dead:

A) Halloween
B) Easter
C) Yom Kippur
D) Day of the Dead
E) Valentine's Day