Deck 13: Love

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ ladder leading from physical to nonphysical love

Answer 1

1

Question 2

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ nonsexual love for one's fellow beings

Answer 2

3

Question 3

____ 2. After Adonis is killed by a wild boar, Venus passes an ordinance requiring everyone on Mount Olympus to stop eating meat.

Answer 3

False

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ arranges it, after the death of her lover, so that love will never make anyone happy

Question 5

____ 5. In Love in the Time of Choleraan ardent admirer remains loyal to his lady for more than 50 years before they are finally married.

Question 6

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ the appetites of passion and the flesh

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ commits suicide so that his son can use the insurance money to be financially successful

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ mother, father, children, grandparents

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ The Wife of Bath

Question 10

____ 1. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, a queen falls in love with a man wearing the head of a donkey.

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ tender feelings and a desire to be with the other

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ The Way of the World

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ ennobled the life and characteristics of the mother of Jesus

Question 14

____ 3. In Driving Miss Daisy, a feisty old white woman is shown respect and devotion by an African American chauffeur.

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ author who created Ma Joad

Question 16

____ 4. During the reign of Queen Victoria, women finally gained equal status with men.

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ strictly defined gender roles

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ Don Quixote's fair lady

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ advocated unconditional service to parents

Question 20

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. Plato
2. Confucius
3. agape
4. Mirabell and Millamant
5. nuclear family
6. Venus
7. Tristan
8. Willy Loman
9. Mariolatry
10. lust
11. Adonis
12. Beatrice
13. adultery
14. eros
15. Florentino
16. Dulcinea
17. Isolde
18. the Victorian model
19. romantic love
20. Chaucer
21. Correggio
22. Steinbeck
___ loyal to his lady love for fifty years

Question 21

It brought the idea of the heroine worshiped for her purity to secular literature:

A) Buddhism
B) Driving Miss Daisy
C) the Victorian model
D) mariolatry
E) Adam's Rib

Question 22

____ 8. Eleanor of Aquitaine did much to keep women equal to men.

Question 23

____ 14. In the eighteenth century it was common for every well-bred gentleman to have at least one mistress.

Question 24

The Song of Solomon of the Hebrew Bible celebrates:

A) chastity
B) physical ecstasy
C) adultery
D) agape
E) courtly love

Question 25

Which of the following does NOT apply to the understanding of the romantic love tradition?

A) arranged marriages
B) flourished during the Middle Ages
C) the code of knighthood
D) Ulrich and the princess
E) Dante and Beatrice

Question 26

Much classical literature portrays sexual passion as

A) easily resisted by rational people.
B) an experience of the highest delight.
C) an affliction curable only by water from the River Styx.
D) visited upon mortals by the jealous fates.
E) bringing about tragic results.

Question 27

____ 11. Courtly love involved the right of the man to make demands on a woman.

Question 28

____ 6. In the Victorian model of marriage, men were expected to remain virgins until the wedding night.

Question 29

The language of this is precisely what we do not find in the literature of the Greeks and Romans:

A) love
B) sex
C) romance
D) remorse
E) religion

Question 30

____ 10. The term eros refers to love as a spiritual or intellectual nonphysical relationship.

Question 31

____ 15. In The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood attacks utopianism by depicting a world in which rights have been taken away from women.

Question 32

When the reader finally meets Satan in Dante's Divine Comedy, the latter is

A) beating tormented sinners with a nail-covered whip.
B) wearing evening clothes and sipping champagne.
C) seated on a flaming throne, laughing.
D) hiding because of the visit by nonsinners.
E) frozen in a lake of ice.

Question 33

____ 12. Mariolatry was a cult that grew up around medieval poets and artists who were devoted to the mother of Jesus.

Question 34

Which of the following was characteristic of love as portrayed in classical myth?

A) the idea of men and women remaining virginal until wed
B) the lover who wears a donkey's head for his beloved's entertainment
C) the decline of the nuclear family
D) the goliards who sang the praises of secular love
E) the impossible love between a mortal and an immortal goddess

Question 35

For Plato, the highest form of love was

A) between a man and a woman.
B) between two sexual partners regardless of gender.
C) between mother and child.
D) love of the beautiful.
E) love of physical pleasures of all kinds.

Question 36

____ 7. The word romance derives from the code of love adopted by the ancient Romans.

Question 37

____ 9. Freudenliest, an obscure thirteenth century book written by a knight, may have provided the model for Don Quixote's devotion to Dulcinea.

Question 38

____ 13. The novel Washington Square concerns an overbearing father and his daughter.

Question 39

Which does NOT apply to The Way of the World?

A) love between a knight and a princess
B) stylish, bantering couple
C) combined romantic love and courtly love
D) love as a game played for high stakes
E) "If I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife."

Question 40

Painter who was inspired by the myth of Venus and Adonis:

A) Peter Paul Rubens
B) Diego Rivera
C) Diego Velazquez
D) Margaret Atwood
E) Correggio

Question 41

After being given a magic potion, she falls in love with a man wearing a donkey's head.

A) Juliet
B) Beatrice
C) Io
D) Venus
E) Titania

Question 42

Goliards were

A) drunken sailors who forced themselves on Isolde.
B) students preparing for the priesthood who sang songs with erotic content.
C) weapons used by medieval knights in their tournaments.
D) colorful frockcoats worn by suitors who practiced courtly love.
E) underground prison cells in which adulterers were confined for life.

Question 43

The era of Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) was characterized by:

A) courtly love
B) blurring of gender roles
C) a strong moral code
D) the decline in popularity of marriage
E) Mariolatry

Question 44

Author of a story in which a husband removes an ugly birthmark from his wife in order to make her beauty absolutely perfect, only to see her die after the operation:

A) Hawthorne
B) Omar Khayyam
C) Shah Jahan
D) Shakespeare
E) Dante.

Question 45

The chapter draws a parallel between the loyal friendship in Don Quixote and

A) Huckleberry Finn and Jim
B) Willy Loman and Biff
C) Mirabell and Millamant
D) Romeo and Juliet
E) Dante and Beatrice