Question 1

The film The Road to Wellville is:

Accepted Answer

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 
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 B

Question 2

A long symphonic poem telling a story through sound:

Accepted Answer

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" 
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" B

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  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.
-___ name given to horror stories by British press

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

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.
-___ where jazz funeral can be found

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

Question 6

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

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

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.
-___ forgiveness ritual

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

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.
-___ eternal reward for heroes

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

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

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

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

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.
-___ "Why not me?"

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

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. 
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 18

"It is Margaret you mourn for" was written to

Accepted Answer

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. 
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 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.
-___ inner sense of unworth

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

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.
-___ strategy for dealing with death

Accepted Answer

A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante 
A) Rabbi Kushner 
B) life-affirmation 
C) penny dreadfuls 
D) Elysian Fields 
E) hooded figure with scythe
F)Margaret
G)fatalism
H)humor
I)woman dealing with cancer
J)James Agee
K)tashlikh
L)symbolic death
M)Dorian Gray
N)Bertrand Russell
O)Oscar and Lucinda
P)phoenix
Q)Richard Strauss
R)New Orleans
S)Marcel Proust
T)forgiveness
U)Dante

The film The Road to Wellville is:

A long symphonic poem telling a story through sound:

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.

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. -___ name given to horror stories by British press

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. -___ where jazz funeral can be found

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.

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

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

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

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

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. -___ forgiveness ritual

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. -___ eternal reward for heroes

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

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

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. -___ "Why not me?"

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

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

"It is Margaret you mourn for" was written to

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. -___ inner sense of unworth

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. -___ strategy for dealing with death

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Exam 14: Life-Affirmation

The film The Road to Wellville is:

A long symphonic poem telling a story through sound:

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.

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. -___ name given to horror stories by British press

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. -___ where jazz funeral can be found

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.

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

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

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

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

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. -___ forgiveness ritual

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. -___ eternal reward for heroes

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

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

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. -___ "Why not me?"

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

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

"It is Margaret you mourn for" was written to

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. -___ inner sense of unworth

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. -___ strategy for dealing with death

The Humanities: a Shining Beacon

The Humanities and Critical Thinking

Myth and the Origin of the Humanities

Literature

Art

Music

Theater

The Musical Stage: Opera, Music, Drama, Dance

Cinema

Religion

Morality

Happiness

Love

Nature

Freedom

Filters