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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The prologue of _Pantagruel_ is a parody and travesty of:
(a) The fables of ancient Greece.
(b) The ignorance of the peasantry.
(c) The ecclesiastical persuasiveness of the Church.
(d) The pomp and circumstance of the aristocracy.
2. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(b) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.
(c) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(d) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
3. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(b) Veselovsky's image excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.
(c) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.
(d) Veselovsky's image is too young at heart, for Rabelais wrote only with an old, tired voice.
4. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Body.
(b) Family.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Mind.
5. Bakhtin thinks that life is:
(a) A sacrifice the soul makes to the body.
(b) Organized by human acts of behavior and cognition.
(c) Meaningless and futile.
(d) Inert, chaotic, and requiring the intervention of art.
Short Answer Questions
1. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
2. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
3. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
4. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?
5. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
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