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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. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:
(a) Marketplace vendors who cheated their customers.
(b) Family ties, such as one's in-laws.
(c) Sacred themes, such as saints and relics.
(d) Monarchs who subjugated their people.

2. In the Fourth Book, why does Villon set a trap for Tappecoue (or "Ticklepecker")?
(a) Tappecoue refused to lend Villon vestments for his play.
(b) Tappecoue insulted Villon's family.
(c) Tappecoue refused to lie to the king about Villon's sacrilege.
(d) Tappecoue stole a large sum of money from Villon.

3. How does Bakhtin interpret Rabelais' work as a response to the hardships of France in 1532?
(a) The novel chastises the people for bringing suffering on themselves.
(b) The novel offers spiritual guidance through hard times.
(c) The novel reinforces the misery the people suffered.
(d) The novel provides a merry alternative to suffering.

4. To what are "swabs" most closely related?
(a) The liver and gallbladder's production of bile.
(b) The material body upper stratum.
(c) The material body lower stratum.
(d) The spiritual intellect's conversant function

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hippocrates assert such an influence on Rabelais?

2. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

3. Bakhtin defines Rabelais' giants as:

4. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

5. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

(see the answer key)

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