View a FREE sample

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 is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?
(a) Predictions of wars and slaughter.
(b) Predictions concerning lovers.
(c) Images of the wrath of nature and of destruction.
(d) Images of the material body and of festivity.

2. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The head and eyes.
(b) The spiritual interior essence.
(c) The material lower stratum.
(d) The arms and legs.

3. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Mind.
(b) Body.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Family.

4. What is the theme of "cuckoldry"?
(a) The act of voting a new mayor and chasing the old one out of town.
(b) The introduction of one rooster into a rowdy henhouse.
(c) The portion of the feast in which all the fowl are consumed.
(d) The rejection of an old husband and the crowning of a new husband.

5. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?
(a) The High Mass.
(b) Saying the Rosary.
(c) Papal indulgences.
(d) Communion.

Short Answer Questions

1. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?

2. The principle of "negation" in popular-festive imagery is always:

3. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

4. What particular tradition did Peter the Great bring to Russia from Western Europe?

5. How does Bakhtin interpret Rabelais' term "agelast"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 410 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample