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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. Why does Bakhtin consider oaths, curses, and profanities elements of freedom?
(a) A person can form any sound into a curse or profanity.
(b) Populist uprisings often have profanities and oaths in their declarations.
(c) They are contrary to official modes of speech.
(d) Slaves are prohibited from using such forms of speech.

2. What does Bakhtin argue is the relationship between the death of Tappecoue and the episode of the Catchpoles?
(a) The local people were shocked and saddened by each event.
(b) Freedom and equality are expressed bodily and coarsely in each event.
(c) The sin of violence is paramount in each.
(d) Sexual relationships take center stage in each event.

3. In grotesque realism, the body is most often represented as:
(a) A whole unit, interior merged with exterior.
(b) Subordinate to the higher functions of the brain.
(c) A faulty copy of the Divine.
(d) Several separate units fighting with each other for superiority.

4. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Distantly suggestive.
(b) Timid and quiet.
(c) Free and frank.
(d) Abusive and derogatory.

5. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?
(a) Only one possible message.
(b) The materials from which the art is constructed.
(c) A system of values.
(d) Whatever the audience chooses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?

2. What is revealed in images of "negation"?

3. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?

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

5. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?

(see the answer key)

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