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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An elderly scholar.
(b) An ironfisted dictator.
(c) A pious priest.
(d) A village boy.

2. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Sexual intercourse.
(c) Defecation.
(d) Hunger.

3. According to Bakhtin, Carnival was the true symbol and incarnation of:
(a) The power of the monarchy.
(b) The folk festival.
(c) The sanctity of the Church.
(d) The natural world.

4. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) Individual, sentimental ideas.
(b) Imaginative fantasy.
(c) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(d) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.

5. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The National Writers' Agency.
(b) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.
(c) The Russian Union of Writers.
(d) The Post-Revolution Press

Short Answer Questions

1. Carnival allowed:

2. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

3. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

4. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

5. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

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