Rabelais and His World Quiz

Mikhail Bakhtin

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral? (from Chapter 8, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Concludes & Chapter 3 - Popular & Festive Forms Begins)

To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.

To decorate the harness of his horse.

To celebrate his marriage.

To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.

2.

What does Bakhtin argue is the relationship between the death of Tappecoue and the episode of the Catchpoles? (from Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms)

The sin of violence is paramount in each.

Sexual relationships take center stage in each event.

Freedom and equality are expressed bodily and coarsely in each event.

The local people were shocked and saddened by each event.

3.

The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates: (from Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont.)

The confusion the author experiences with this combination.

The complex explanation of the Prologue to the readers.

The opinion that humor must be subordinate to seriousness.

The importance and necessity of laughter.

4.

Bakhtin generally finds Goethe's sense of Carnival's _____________ to agree with his own views. (from Chapter 10, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms)

Poetic expression.

Universalism.

Religiousness.

Pessimism.

5.

What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book? (from Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont.)

Invocations to the Muse.

Blank verse.

Long lists of names and epithets.

Complaints about love.

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