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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the theme of "cuckoldry"?
(a) The act of voting a new mayor and chasing the old one out of town.
(b) The portion of the feast in which all the fowl are consumed.
(c) The rejection of an old husband and the crowning of a new husband.
(d) The introduction of one rooster into a rowdy henhouse.

2. What actual event probably inspired Rabelais' story of Pantagruel's birth?
(a) An earthquake which devastated southern France.
(b) The French victory of a battle with the Spanish.
(c) A famine resulting from an unusually cold winter.
(d) An unusual heat wave and drought.

3. What does Rabelais associate closely with the underworld?
(a) The depths of the human heart.
(b) Bodily depression after too much feasting.
(c) Mountains and ridges.
(d) Various types of holes.

4. In Rabelais' novel, the words "to die" are closely associated with:
(a) Sexual fulfillment.
(b) Being eaten or swallowed up.
(c) Losing a debate with a scholar.
(d) Passing out after drinking too much wine.

5. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:
(a) Scenes of pious worship.
(b) Scenes of travel and journeys.
(c) Scenes of eating and drinking.
(d) Scenes of violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "intelligentsia"?

2. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

3. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:

4. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:

5. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:

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