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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Bakhtin asserts that in the episode of Gargantua's birth, the dividing lines between _______ are erased.
2. What is a Renaissance "diablerie"?
3. How does Bakhtin define "carnivalesque hell"?
4. What are examples of that which Bakhtin calls "cosmic terrors"?
5. What word characterizes Medieval thinking, according to Bakhtin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the Medieval stage resemble?
2. How did games and gaming change after the Renaissance?
3. Why does Bakhtin assert that we cannot make the mistake of interpreting Rabelais' images of the material body lower stratum with our modern sensibilities?
4. What is the significance of "cuckoldry," and how is it portrayed?
5. How does Rabelais construct the episode of Epistemon's resurrection and of his visions in the underworld?
6. Why does the logic of the grotesque ignore the closed surfaces of the body?
7. Discuss the significance of Gargantua's birth.
8. How does Rabelais strengthen the exaggerated themes of his grotesque realism?
9. Briefly describe the two opposing lines of thought in the "querelle des femmes."
10. How do the Medieval and Renaissance pictures of the cosmos differ?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the relationship between praise and abuse. Use examples of this theme from what Bakhtin identifies as billingsgate and marketplace language and from popular-festive forms in Chapters 2 and 3. How were praise and abuse part of the tradition of "unofficial" language, and specifically how did they oppose "official" language? Are there elements of the grotesque in praise and abuse?
Essay Topic 2
What is a "blazon"? How are blazons part of the carnivalesque and grotesque traditions of folk humor? What sorts of people or things were turned into blazons, and why? How is the theme of duality related to the blazon? How does Rabelais employ blazons in his novel?
Essay Topic 3
What is significant about the marketplace in the Renaissance? What is its relation to folk culture? How are social relationships conducted in the environment of the marketplace? How are the "street cries" significant aspects of folk culture? What other "unofficial" elements of communication, social commentary, and social interaction are especially prevalent in the marketplace? Are there any carnivalesque elements of the marketplace?
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