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

2. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?
(a) The Renaissance philosophy of humanism.
(b) The Medieval doctrine of faith.
(c) The Classical philosophy of stoicism.
(d) The Christian doctrine of submission.

3. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Death rituals.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Fables.

4. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?
(a) Yes, especially during festivals.
(b) No, except during times of war.
(c) No, both forms of speech were highly regulated.
(d) Yes, except for religious holidays.

5. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?
(a) Materials used to build large meeting-houses.
(b) Vegetables which require being strung to a pole in order to grow.
(c) People who earn money by allowing others to beat them.
(d) Animals sent into the wild as sacrifices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?

2. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?

3. What work of literature is parodied in the prologue of _Gargantua_?

4. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

5. What body part is most often used in grotesque caricatures of sexual potency?

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