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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. The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates:
(a) The opinion that humor must be subordinate to seriousness.
(b) The importance and necessity of laughter.
(c) The complex explanation of the Prologue to the readers.
(d) The confusion the author experiences with this combination.

2. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:
(a) Reassert traditional definitions of social and spiritual life.
(b) Indicate the importance of travel to an individual's self-development.
(c) Call upon something serious and make it amusing.
(d) Irreversibly denigrate everything it could.

3. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?
(a) His work was viewed as unintelligible and barbaric.
(b) Other writers strove to emulate his style.
(c) His work was viewed as a revival of Classical writing.
(d) Other writers used his topics as a jumping-off point for their own works.

4. What event that Rabelais relates does he assert is the origin of the name of the city of Paris?
(a) A battle won by the French against the English.
(b) Pantagruel's education in the druggists' shops.
(c) Gargantua's drenching of the city in urine.
(d) An earthquake that disrupts Carnival.

5. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?
(a) Yes, except for religious holidays.
(b) No, except during times of war.
(c) No, both forms of speech were highly regulated.
(d) Yes, especially during festivals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?

2. Bakhtin associates Friar John's beating of the men with:

3. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

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

5. Bakhtin asserts that the advertisement for "pantagruelion" in the Third Book expresses:

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