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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:
(a) The abuse/praise dynamics of the marketplace.
(b) The idea that ancient philosophies were incorrect.
(c) The image of Rabelais himself.
(d) The good/evil dichotomy of mankind.

2. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:
(a) Quietly reflective and speculative.
(b) Loaded with comparatives and superlatives.
(c) Objective and editorially distant.
(d) Purely abusive and vulgar.

3. Bakhtin asserts that man introduces the world to himself primarily through which act?
(a) Observing nature.
(b) Eating.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Conversation.

4. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:
(a) Marketplace vendors who cheated their customers.
(b) Sacred themes, such as saints and relics.
(c) Family ties, such as one's in-laws.
(d) Monarchs who subjugated their people.

5. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The arms and legs.
(b) The material lower stratum.
(c) The spiritual interior essence.
(d) The head and eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the three categories of the "comic" which Bakhtin cites from Schneegans?

2. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?

3. Which side of the Renaissance debate about the nature of women and wedlock did Rabelais tend to take?

4. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:

5. Gargamelle gives birth to Gargantua as a result of:

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