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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Chapter 7 - Rabelais' Images & His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bakhtin argue is the relationship between the death of Tappecoue and the episode of the Catchpoles?
(a) The sin of violence is paramount in each.
(b) The local people were shocked and saddened by each event.
(c) Freedom and equality are expressed bodily and coarsely in each event.
(d) Sexual relationships take center stage in each event.

2. In the Fourth Book, why does Villon set a trap for Tappecoue (or "Ticklepecker")?
(a) Tappecoue refused to lend Villon vestments for his play.
(b) Tappecoue stole a large sum of money from Villon.
(c) Tappecoue insulted Villon's family.
(d) Tappecoue refused to lie to the king about Villon's sacrilege.

3. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Expressionism.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Futurism.

4. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Death and birth.
(d) Thought and spirit.

5. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?
(a) Animals sent into the wild as sacrifices.
(b) Vegetables which require being strung to a pole in order to grow.
(c) Materials used to build large meeting-houses.
(d) People who earn money by allowing others to beat them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.

2. According to Bakhtin, how did Rabelais invent many of the locales and characters in his novel?

3. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

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

5. What are the three categories of the "comic" which Bakhtin cites from Schneegans?

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