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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why was gaming very important in the Renaissance?
2. Gargamelle gives birth to Gargantua as a result of:
3. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:
4. Which side of the Renaissance debate about the nature of women and wedlock did Rabelais tend to take?
5. What is the theme of "cuckoldry"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of "cuckoldry," and how is it portrayed?
2. What does Bakhtin mean when he writes that popular-festive carnivalesque performances have no "footlights"?
3. Why does Bakhtin assert that we cannot make the mistake of interpreting Rabelais' images of the material body lower stratum with our modern sensibilities?
4. How does Rabelais respond to the geographical changes of his own time and world?
5. Describe the figure of "Gros Guillaume" and his significance to Rabelais' novel.
6. What is the significance of Friar John's description of the monastery belfry as "fecund"?
7. Why does Bakhtin choose to relate Goethe to Rabelais' work?
8. What is the role of games in Rabelais' work?
9. What is the nature of the carnivalesque crowd in Rabelais' novel?
10. What is the significance of the two Russian eras of history to which Bakhtin refers in Chapter Three?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What roles do games play in Rabelais' novel and in the Renaissance? Discuss how games and gaming fulfill an "unofficial" social role as opposed to an "official" one. What images, traditions, and symbols does Bakhtin associate them with? How are games representative of folk culture? How did games and gaming change after the Renaissance?
Essay Topic 2
How does Rabelais use myth in his work? What types of myth does he draw from (classical, popular, spiritual, etc.)? How are allusions to mythology a part of carnivalesque culture? Cite at least three specific examples of identifiable myths which Rabelais alludes to, alters, parodies, travesties, or repeats.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the relationship between praise and abuse. Use examples of this theme from what Bakhtin identifies as billingsgate and marketplace language and from popular-festive forms in Chapters 2 and 3. How were praise and abuse part of the tradition of "unofficial" language, and specifically how did they oppose "official" language? Are there elements of the grotesque in praise and abuse?
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