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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. According to Bakhtin, what is directly related to the oversized foods common at Renaissance feasts?
(a) The swelling of religious fervor during holy days.
(b) The general health of a town's population.
(c) Grotesque portrayals of the stomach, mouth, and genitals.
(d) Bodily restraint as a result of mind over matter.

2. How does Bakhtin define "folly" as it relates to festivity?
(a) Inaccessible.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Artistic.
(d) Pessimistic.

3. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.
(b) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.
(c) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(d) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.

4. What significant thing did translators of Rabelais' work add to their translations?
(a) Editorial remarks in the form of footnotes.
(b) Lists of games played in their own countries.
(c) Lists of street cries common in their own countries.
(d) Critical inquiry of the validity of Rabelais' portrayal of marketplace culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a "prophetic riddle" game carnivalesque in nature?

2. What are the three categories of the "comic" which Bakhtin cites from Schneegans?

3. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:

4. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

5. Bakhtin notes that two of the most commonly combined themes in Medieval popular literature relating to monks are:

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