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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. Which grotesque elements does Bakhtin note were included in the procession of the feast of Corpus Christi?
(a) Children dressed as animals.
(b) Monsters, giants, and indecent gestures.
(c) Representations of the sun, moon, and stars.
(d) Self-flagellating monks.

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

3. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.
(b) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(c) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(d) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.

4. How does Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
(a) "Otherworldly."
(b) "Grotesque."
(c) "Horrifying."
(d) "Scientific."

5. When did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?

2. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?

3. In Rabelais' time, the word "drum" and the act of drumming connoted:

4. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

5. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?

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