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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. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?
(a) To be beautiful in and of itself.
(b) To communicate meaningful messages.
(c) To glorify the artist.
(d) To be sold for money or services.

2. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.
(b) It is the epitome of disgusting.
(c) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(d) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.

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

4. What does Panurge fear if he gets married?
(a) That he will marry an ugly woman.
(b) That his wife will never love him.
(c) That he will eventually be cuckolded.
(d) That he will not be able to have a son.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?

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

3. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

4. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?

5. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?

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