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

2. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?
(a) Another Friar challenged him.
(b) To save France from atheism.
(c) To save the abbey's vineyards.
(d) As a show of force to deter invaders.

3. What body part is most often used in grotesque caricatures of sexual potency?
(a) The feet.
(b) The nose.
(c) The hands.
(d) The torso.

4. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?
(a) Man's higher spiritual calling.
(b) The celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.
(c) The way people act differently around those of another social class.
(d) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.

5. In Rabelais' time, the word "drum" and the act of drumming connoted:
(a) Death.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are examples of that which Bakhtin calls "cosmic terrors"?

2. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?

3. What does Bakhtin consider the "symposium" of Medieval grotesque realism?

4. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

5. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

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