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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. Bakhtin asserts that in Rabelais' time, food and banquets always contained a sense of:
(a) Depression and resignation.
(b) Physical discomfort.
(c) Victory and regeneration.
(d) Intellectual stimulation.

2. The principle of "negation" in popular-festive imagery is always:
(a) Abstract and theoretical: imaginary rather than actualized.
(b) Vulgar and dirty: always having to do with the material body lower stratum.
(c) Spiritual and sacred: following the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
(d) Tangible and obvious: one thing turned about for another.

3. Goethe traces the roots of Carnival to the:
(a) Greeks.
(b) Mesopotamians.
(c) Romans.
(d) Phoenicians.

4. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:
(a) Sexual intercourse.
(b) Defecation.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Religious fervor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:

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

3. Bakhtin notes that two of the most commonly combined themes in Medieval popular literature relating to monks are:

4. What is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?

5. Bakhtin asserts that in the episode of Gargantua's birth, the dividing lines between _______ are erased.

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