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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bakhtin say Ivan the Terrible of Russia was similar to Rabelais?
(a) They both travelled anonymously to Carnival festivities.
(b) He too challenged old political and social structures.
(c) They both fought bloody battles against the reigning monarch.
(d) He also was a prolific and controversial writer.

2. How does Bakhtin interpret the relevance of the cries of Paris to Renaissance France?
(a) The cries were the people's only method of exchanging ideas.
(b) The cries negate the revitalization of the marketplace.
(c) The cries suggest a deep discontent in the Parisian populace.
(d) The cries combine the reality of practical life with festive utopian universalism.

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

4. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:
(a) The one who is thrashed explicitly agrees to the act.
(b) The act of thrashing is done to punish the individual.
(c) The act of thrashing is done out of kindness.
(d) The one who is thrashed is also decorated and celebrated.

5. According to Bakhtin, what is directly related to the oversized foods common at Renaissance feasts?
(a) The general health of a town's population.
(b) Bodily restraint as a result of mind over matter.
(c) Grotesque portrayals of the stomach, mouth, and genitals.
(d) The swelling of religious fervor during holy days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

2. Bakhtin finds food and drink representative of society because:

3. Bakhtin generally finds Goethe's sense of Carnival's _____________ to agree with his own views.

4. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?

5. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?

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