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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Gargamelle gives birth to Gargantua as a result of:
(a) Casting a spell of birth.
(b) A spirit impregnating her.
(c) Eating too much tripe.
(d) Praying for a child.

2. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?
(a) Saying the Rosary.
(b) Papal indulgences.
(c) The High Mass.
(d) Communion.

3. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.
(b) By receiving a divine revelation.
(c) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(d) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.

4. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.
(b) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.
(c) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(d) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

2. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

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

4. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

5. Carnival allowed:

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