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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. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:
(a) The declining number of Carnival performers.
(b) An increasingly "official" culture of rationalism.
(c) The exhaustion of any new sources of humor.
(d) The need of the public for other forms of diversion.

2. What significant thing did translators of Rabelais' work add to their translations?
(a) Lists of games played in their own countries.
(b) Editorial remarks in the form of footnotes.
(c) Critical inquiry of the validity of Rabelais' portrayal of marketplace culture.
(d) Lists of street cries common in their own countries.

3. Why was gaming very important in the Renaissance?
(a) Gaming was deemed sinful and was forbidden by the Church.
(b) Games represented another form of understanding the cycle of life.
(c) Games defined the distinction between social classes.
(d) Gaming reinforced the "official" ways of thinking.

4. In Medieval satires, the dismemberment of portions of the body relates to:
(a) The topography of the continents.
(b) The general conception of the divine.
(c) The human body itself.
(d) The separate portions of society.

5. In Rabelais' novel, the "ancestral body" to which Bakhtin refers means:
(a) The record of births and deaths kept by local churches.
(b) The features of one's body in which one resembles one's parents.
(c) The portions of the body that die over time, like hair and fingernails.
(d) The generative organs which produce children.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Rabelais' time, what happens to the "body" as a general social idea?

2. In Rabelais' novel, the words "to die" are closely associated with:

3. Bakhtin defines Rabelais' giants as:

4. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

5. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.

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