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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Chapter 7 - Rabelais' Images & His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An ironfisted dictator.
(b) A pious priest.
(c) A village boy.
(d) An elderly scholar.

2. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?
(a) Like a god: worshipped, feared, and obeyed.
(b) Like a criminal: charged, tried, and punished.
(c) Like a child: pampered, sheltered, and beloved.
(d) Like a clown: beaten, travestied, and transformed.

3. Bakhtin asserts that "The Play in the Bower" influenced Rabelais' work specifically in its:
(a) Demonstration of rigid and correctly class-conscious behavior.
(b) Themes of unofficial laughter and banquet imagery.
(c) Adherence to the rules of proper religious worship.
(d) Themes of human sadness, pessimism, and regret.

4. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:
(a) The Renaissance notion that all which is already established is perfect.
(b) Rabelais' view of the proper treatment of foreigners and peasants.
(c) The Renaissance system of images that is perpetually regenerative and never decaying.
(d) The methods of marketplace vendors in overpricing their goods.

5. What Renaissance series of works was highly influential to Rabelais' notion of the grotesque body?
(a) The "New World Chronicles."
(b) The "Nordic Fictions."
(c) The "Oriental Tales."
(d) The "Indian Wonders."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakhtin argue is the relationship between the death of Tappecoue and the episode of the Catchpoles?

2. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

4. According to Schneegans, what is the grotesque in art?

5. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?

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