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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. "The Treatise of Garcia of Toledo," which Bakhtin cites, is notable for:
(a) Its disregard for the festive tradition.
(b) Its portrayal of the gluttony of the Pope.
(c) Its simple philosophy of religious asceticism.
(d) Its retelling of ancient myths and fables.

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

3. When did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1850.

4. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
(a) By trying to correctly interpret the source of the cultural laughter within them.
(b) By denouncing them as counterproductive to the ongoing Russian Revolution.
(c) By sharing them with an eager public.
(d) By reviving their content in new, twentieth-century forms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bakhtin, Carnival was the true symbol and incarnation of:

2. After Rabelais' time, what happens to the "body" as a general social idea?

3. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

4. Why does Bakhtin consider oaths, curses, and profanities elements of freedom?

5. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:

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