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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. Bakhtin notes that two of the most commonly combined themes in Medieval popular literature relating to monks are:
(a) Envy and greed.
(b) Sex and death.
(c) Gluttony and desire.
(d) Piety and cruelty.

2. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Timid and quiet.
(b) Distantly suggestive.
(c) Free and frank.
(d) Abusive and derogatory.

3. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) Frightening and terrible.
(b) Generally revered.
(c) One with the earth.
(d) Mostly comic.

4. One of Rabelais' main sources for his enumerations of food was a Medieval treatise about:
(a) Lenten and non-Lenten foods.
(b) Restrictions of food for pregnant women.
(c) The proper order in which to eat banquet foods.
(d) The ways in which chicken tasted better than pheasant.

5. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?
(a) The Christian doctrine of submission.
(b) The Renaissance philosophy of humanism.
(c) The Medieval doctrine of faith.
(d) The Classical philosophy of stoicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?

2. What particular tradition did Peter the Great bring to Russia from Western Europe?

3. Goethe traces the roots of Carnival to the:

4. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

5. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

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