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

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

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

4. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?
(a) The Renaissance philosophy of humanism.
(b) The Classical philosophy of stoicism.
(c) The Medieval doctrine of faith.
(d) The Christian doctrine of submission.

5. What is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?
(a) Images of the material body and of festivity.
(b) Predictions of wars and slaughter.
(c) Images of the wrath of nature and of destruction.
(d) Predictions concerning lovers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?

4. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

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

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