View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bakhtin asserts that in the episode of Gargantua's birth, the dividing lines between _______ are erased.
(a) Human and animal organs.
(b) Earthly and divine spiritual relationships.
(c) Human and animal consciousness.
(d) Children and adults.

2. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) Individual, sentimental ideas.
(b) Imaginative fantasy.
(c) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(d) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.

3. What is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?
(a) Images of the material body and of festivity.
(b) Predictions of wars and slaughter.
(c) Predictions concerning lovers.
(d) Images of the wrath of nature and of destruction.

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

5. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:
(a) Loaded with comparatives and superlatives.
(b) Purely abusive and vulgar.
(c) Objective and editorially distant.
(d) Quietly reflective and speculative.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?

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

3. What are the "intelligentsia"?

4. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

5. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

(see the answer key)

This section contains 308 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample