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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(b) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(c) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.
(d) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.

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

3. According to Bakhtin, Carnival was the true symbol and incarnation of:
(a) The power of the monarchy.
(b) The folk festival.
(c) The sanctity of the Church.
(d) The natural world.

4. What is the theme of "cuckoldry"?
(a) The introduction of one rooster into a rowdy henhouse.
(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 act of voting a new mayor and chasing the old one out of town.

5. What work of literature is parodied in the prologue of _Gargantua_?
(a) Malory's _Le Morte d'Arthur_
(b) Dante's _Divine Comedy_
(c) Plato's _Symposium_
(d) Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin asserts that "The Play in the Bower" influenced Rabelais' work specifically in its:

2. What is the "sia ammazzato" of which Goethe writes?

3. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

4. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:

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

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