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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and 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 ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(b) It is dark and foreboding.
(c) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(d) It is innocent and childlike.

2. What was the most prevalent medium of the culture of the common folk in the Renaissance?
(a) Printed newspapers.
(b) Pantomime.
(c) The spoken word.
(d) Semaphore signals.

3. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The Post-Revolution Press
(b) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.
(c) The National Writers' Agency.
(d) The Russian Union of Writers.

4. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.
(a) Acts of war.
(b) Banquet images.
(c) Intelligent scholars.
(d) Secrets of lovers.

5. How does Friar John interpret the riddle he and Gargantua hear?
(a) As a promise of Armageddon and the return of Christ.
(b) As an indication of his own increasing wealth.
(c) As a promise of winter floods and summer drought.
(d) As a representation of a tennis match.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

2. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

3. What are examples of that which Bakhtin calls "cosmic terrors"?

4. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

5. Clowns and fools are:

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