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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. What does Panurge fear if he gets married?
2. Bakhtin asserts that Rabelais' grotesque conception of the body reflected:
3. Bakhtin asserts that Rabelais' language, and the language of Renaissance France, was above all:
4. What are the three categories of the "comic" which Bakhtin cites from Schneegans?
5. From what does Panurge suggest the protective walls of Paris be built?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which elements of Villon and Tappecoue's (Ticklepecker's) episode make it a "tragic farce"?
2. How does Rabelais strengthen the exaggerated themes of his grotesque realism?
3. How does Rabelais use the element of popular speech known as "coq-à-l'âne"?
4. What did the Medieval stage resemble?
5. Why does Bakhtin assert that we cannot make the mistake of interpreting Rabelais' images of the material body lower stratum with our modern sensibilities?
6. How is "folly" ambivalent?
7. What is the nature of the carnivalesque crowd in Rabelais' novel?
8. What is the connection between the banquet and speech?
9. What is the significance of "cuckoldry," and how is it portrayed?
10. Briefly describe the two opposing lines of thought in the "querelle des femmes."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What connections do Bakhtin and the authors of the Foreword and the Prologue draw between Bakhtin and Rabelais? How were their lives and times similar? What common themes are evident in their writing? In which important ways do they differ?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the meaning and significance of "grotesque realism." How is it manifested in Rabelais' time? How is the material body presented in the tradition of the grotesque? Why does Bakhtin connect folk culture so closely with the grotesque? Use examples from the text to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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