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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. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.
(b) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.
(c) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.
(d) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.

2. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both write mostly novels.
(b) They live in the same country.
(c) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.
(d) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.

3. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An ironfisted dictator.
(b) An elderly scholar.
(c) A village boy.
(d) A pious priest.

4. How does Bakhtin define the novel?
(a) As a worthless type of literature.
(b) As a single-voiced text.
(c) As a work of pure imagination.
(d) As a multiplicity of styles.

5. What are examples of that which Bakhtin calls "cosmic terrors"?
(a) Violent beings from another universe.
(b) The sky, the sea, and natural disasters.
(c) Atheists who insult and threaten God.
(d) Vengeful pagan deities.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what are "swabs" most closely related?

2. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?

3. How does Friar John interpret the riddle he and Gargantua hear?

4. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?

5. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?

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