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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. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Mind.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Family.

2. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?
(a) The Christian doctrine of submission.
(b) The Renaissance philosophy of humanism.
(c) The Medieval doctrine of faith.
(d) The Classical philosophy of stoicism.

3. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From accepted to encouraged.
(b) From singular to universal.
(c) From universal to restricted.
(d) From spiritual to earthly.

4. Bakhtin asserts that in Rabelais' time, food and banquets always contained a sense of:
(a) Intellectual stimulation.
(b) Victory and regeneration.
(c) Depression and resignation.
(d) Physical discomfort.

5. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:
(a) Quietly reflective and speculative.
(b) Objective and editorially distant.
(c) Purely abusive and vulgar.
(d) Loaded with comparatives and superlatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bakhtin define "folly" as it relates to festivity?

2. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

3. How does Bakhtin interpret the relevance of the cries of Paris to Renaissance France?

4. "Tripe" literally refers to:

5. Carnival allowed:

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