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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Intro. cont. & Chapter 1 - Rabelais in the History of Laughter.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?
(a) Only one possible message.
(b) The materials from which the art is constructed.
(c) A system of values.
(d) Whatever the audience chooses.

3. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Death rituals.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Fables.

4. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
(b) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.
(c) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(d) The most famous Russian writer ever.

5. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?
(a) Man's higher spiritual calling.
(b) The way people act differently around those of another social class.
(c) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.
(d) The celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

2. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

3. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

4. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

5. Bakhtin believes that novels are:

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