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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is innocent and childlike.
(b) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(c) It is dark and foreboding.
(d) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.

2. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?
(a) A highly spiritual notion of the relevance of human history.
(b) A ponderous, scholarly approach to the study of history.
(c) A disregard for the importance of historical figures.
(d) A carnivalesque conception of the historical process.

3. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:
(a) The idea that ancient philosophies were incorrect.
(b) The good/evil dichotomy of mankind.
(c) The abuse/praise dynamics of the marketplace.
(d) The image of Rabelais himself.

4. The episode in which Pantagruel and his companions defeat King Anarchus' knights combines:
(a) Slaughter with feasting.
(b) Nature with artifice.
(c) Love with hate.
(d) Human instinct with forethought.

5. What Renaissance series of works was highly influential to Rabelais' notion of the grotesque body?
(a) The "Nordic Fictions."
(b) The "Indian Wonders."
(c) The "New World Chronicles."
(d) The "Oriental Tales."

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin defines the early French work "The Play in the Bower" as a:

2. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

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

4. Which grotesque elements does Bakhtin note were included in the procession of the feast of Corpus Christi?

5. How does Friar John interpret the riddle he and Gargantua hear?

(see the answer key)

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