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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(b) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.
(c) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.
(d) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.

2. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:
(a) The act of thrashing is done to punish the individual.
(b) The one who is thrashed explicitly agrees to the act.
(c) The one who is thrashed is also decorated and celebrated.
(d) The act of thrashing is done out of kindness.

3. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
(a) To decorate the harness of his horse.
(b) To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.
(c) To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.
(d) To celebrate his marriage.

4. Bakhtin associates Friar John's beating of the men with:
(a) Market vendors who assault non-paying customers.
(b) The last charge of Charlemagne.
(c) The Dionysian feast of the grape harvest.
(d) Juvenalian satires of public figures.

5. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?
(a) Many scholars believe that Rabelais himself was bitter from publication disputes.
(b) The Latin derivations of his scatological vocabulary mean "cynical."
(c) Many scholars interpret them only in a modern context.
(d) These elements express a deep distrust of contemporary society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin asserts that in the episode of Gargantua's birth, the dividing lines between _______ are erased.

2. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

3. Carnival allowed:

4. The defense of the abbey by Friar John contains:

5. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?

(see the answer key)

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