Rabelais and His World Quiz Questions | Quiz: Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms to Chapter 10, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms

Quiz: Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms to Chapter 10, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. Bakhtin asserts that the spirit of Carnival is essentially:
a) One of pessimism and regression.
b) One of immortality and regeneration.
c) One of innocence and confusion.
d) One of dullness and duty.

2. Which aspect of Renaissance culture does Bakhtin stress is still apparent in Western society today?
a) Carnival.
b) Public thrashings.
c) Clowns and fools.
d) Street cries.

3. What is the image of woman in the Renaissance popular comic tradition?
a) Negative: woman is the source of all sin, and must be oppressed.
b) Ambivalent: woman is degraded but simultaneously regenerative.
c) Materialist: woman...
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