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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.
(b) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(c) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.
(d) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.
2. How does the Lord of Basche contrive to bring Catchpoles to his castle?
(a) By celebrating Mass.
(b) By offering people absolution from their sins.
(c) By giving away his possessions.
(d) By celebrating mock weddings.
3. Carnival allowed:
(a) The upper class to oppress relentlessly the lower class.
(b) The endurance of the propriety expected of all social classes.
(c) The mixing of real and unreal, fantasy and fact.
(d) The peasants to sell their crops without paying taxes.
4. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?
(a) A carnivalesque conception of the historical process.
(b) A ponderous, scholarly approach to the study of history.
(c) A highly spiritual notion of the relevance of human history.
(d) A disregard for the importance of historical figures.
5. According to Bakhtin, Carnival was the true symbol and incarnation of:
(a) The natural world.
(b) The sanctity of the Church.
(c) The folk festival.
(d) The power of the monarchy.
Short Answer Questions
1. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?
2. How does Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
3. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?
4. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
5. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:
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