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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. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Futurism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Impressionism.

2. 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 celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.
(d) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.

3. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?
(a) Political dissent.
(b) Sexually-charged dialogue.
(c) A particularly Western type of humor.
(d) Religious fervor.

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

5. Bakhtin believes that novels are:
(a) Socially charged and polemical.
(b) Utterly separate from the author's own life.
(c) Inherently confessional.
(d) Random, like stream-of-consciousness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?

2. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?

3. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

4. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?

5. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

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