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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Chapter 7 - Rabelais' Images & His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Bakhtin believes that novels are:
(a) Socially charged and polemical.
(b) Inherently confessional.
(c) Random, like stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Utterly separate from the author's own life.

3. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
(b) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(c) Imaginative fantasy.
(d) Individual, sentimental ideas.

4. How does Rabelais accomplish the grotesque degradation of his target in the prologue to the Third Book?
(a) By declaring the targets to be empty-headed.
(b) By accusing the targets of paganism and crimes against the Church.
(c) By insulting the targets' mothers.
(d) By declaring the targets incapable of the basest bodily functions.

5. Bakhtin asserts that Rabelais' language, and the language of Renaissance France, was above all:
(a) Stagnant and dead.
(b) Lacking foreign influence.
(c) Strict and immobile.
(d) Free and flexible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?

3. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?

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

5. What did the word "pantagruel" colloquially mean in the Renaissance?

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