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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?
(a) The biography.
(b) The epic poem.
(c) The lyric.
(d) The novel.

2. In which element of Shakespeare's dramas does Bakhtin see the overall theme of Rabelais' carnivalesque repeated?
(a) In the strengths of characters such as Hamlet and Othello.
(b) In the logic of crownings and uncrownings.
(c) In the tragic elements of Shakespeare's romances.
(d) In the farcical secondary characters.

3. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) One with the earth.
(b) Generally revered.
(c) Frightening and terrible.
(d) Mostly comic.

4. How does Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
(a) "Otherworldly."
(b) "Scientific."
(c) "Grotesque."
(d) "Horrifying."

5. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?
(a) The words are carefully chosen by the speaker to disgust the listener.
(b) The words are spoken in a language the listener cannot understand, so they sound like gibberish.
(c) The words combine two sides of the same form or feeling into an ambivalent but cohesive social structure.
(d) The words reflect incompatible sides of certain social classes of people.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?

2. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?

3. How does Bakhtin define the episode involving Villon and Tappecoue?

4. What significant thing did translators of Rabelais' work add to their translations?

5. How does Bakhtin say Ivan the Terrible of Russia was similar to Rabelais?

(see the answer key)

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