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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In grotesque realism, the body is most often represented as:
(a) A faulty copy of the Divine.
(b) A whole unit, interior merged with exterior.
(c) Subordinate to the higher functions of the brain.
(d) Several separate units fighting with each other for superiority.

3. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is innocent and childlike.
(b) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(c) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(d) It is dark and foreboding.

4. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:
(a) Scenes of travel and journeys.
(b) Scenes of pious worship.
(c) Scenes of eating and drinking.
(d) Scenes of violence.

5. What do wine and oil symbolize in Rabelais' novel?
(a) Hard harvest work in the vineyards and olive groves.
(b) Sickness and hangovers versus a useful cooking ingredient.
(c) Free, festive speech versus religious piety and seriousness.
(d) Since both are flammable, they symbolize hellfire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

2. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

3. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?

4. Bakhtin defines the early French work "The Play in the Bower" as a:

5. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:

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