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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Abusive and derogatory.
(b) Distantly suggestive.
(c) Timid and quiet.
(d) Free and frank.

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

3. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:
(a) Monarchs who subjugated their people.
(b) Sacred themes, such as saints and relics.
(c) Family ties, such as one's in-laws.
(d) Marketplace vendors who cheated their customers.

4. What are examples of carnivalesque victims?
(a) Blushing virgins and old maids.
(b) Stray dogs and street orphans.
(c) Debased clowns and slaughtered oxen.
(d) Peasants and tax collectors.

5. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:
(a) Scenes of travel and journeys.
(b) Scenes of violence.
(c) Scenes of eating and drinking.
(d) Scenes of pious worship.

Short Answer Questions

1. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

2. The episode in which Pantagruel and his companions defeat King Anarchus' knights combines:

3. How does the Lord of Basche contrive to bring Catchpoles to his castle?

4. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

5. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bakhtin get around the prohibition of certain kinds of satire and irony in his own time?

2. Describe Friar John.

3. What was the "feast of fools," and why was it a particularly festive laughter in the Middle Ages?

4. What was the general perception of laughter in the Renaissance?

5. What was the effect of the suspension of social hierarchies during Carnival?

6. What does Rabelais parody with the character of Janotus de Bragmardo?

7. What about the episode of the Lord of Basche is carnivalesque?

8. How does the marketplace become an indicator of folk culture in general?

9. What is Bakhtin's general idea about the purpose of art?

10. Describe two episodes of beatings or injury are specifically centered around the theme of feasting.

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