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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Janotus de Bragmardo?
(a) A clown who mocks Gargantua at Carnival.
(b) A robber who stumbles across Gargantua's treasure.
(c) A market vendor scheming to cheat Gargantua.
(d) A scholar sent to recover church bells from Gargantua.

2. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.
(b) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.
(c) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.
(d) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.

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

4. What is the image of woman in the Renaissance popular comic tradition?
(a) Materialist: woman is worth money, in her body or from her work.
(b) Negative: woman is the source of all sin, and must be oppressed.
(c) Ambivalent: woman is degraded but simultaneously regenerative.
(d) Positive: woman is the light of the future, and must be celebrated.

5. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?
(a) The bodily element is universal, celebratory, positive, and exaggerated.
(b) The author's focus must be on bodily gore, blood, death, and dying.
(c) The writing must strive to be as mathematically or geometrically accurate as possible in its descriptions.
(d) The tone of the writing is always dark, Gothic, and depressing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

2. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

3. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?

4. Which aspect of Renaissance culture does Bakhtin stress is still apparent in Western society today?

5. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?

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