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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?
(a) Papal indulgences.
(b) Communion.
(c) Saying the Rosary.
(d) The High Mass.

2. The defense of the abbey by Friar John contains:
(a) A debasing description of the French people.
(b) A caricature of the Pope.
(c) A travestied allusion to Communion.
(d) A grotesque combination of sexual intercourse and war.

3. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(b) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.
(c) By receiving a divine revelation.
(d) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.

4. Bakhtin defines the early French work "The Play in the Bower" as a:
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Melodrama.
(c) Comic drama.
(d) Farce.

5. Bakhtin generally finds Goethe's sense of Carnival's _____________ to agree with his own views.
(a) Poetic expression.
(b) Universalism.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Pessimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

2. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?

3. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?

4. How is a "prophetic riddle" game carnivalesque in nature?

5. How does Bakhtin define the episode involving Villon and Tappecoue?

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