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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
(a) By reviving their content in new, twentieth-century forms.
(b) By sharing them with an eager public.
(c) By denouncing them as counterproductive to the ongoing Russian Revolution.
(d) By trying to correctly interpret the source of the cultural laughter within them.

2. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) Commerce and industry.
(b) The lives of ordinary people.
(c) Foreign songs, art, and stories.
(d) The affairs of royalty.

3. Bakhtin asserts that "The Play in the Bower" influenced Rabelais' work specifically in its:
(a) Themes of human sadness, pessimism, and regret.
(b) Demonstration of rigid and correctly class-conscious behavior.
(c) Adherence to the rules of proper religious worship.
(d) Themes of unofficial laughter and banquet imagery.

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

5. How does Bakhtin define "folly" as it relates to festivity?
(a) Pessimistic.
(b) Artistic.
(c) Ambivalent.
(d) Inaccessible.

Short Answer Questions

1. The prologue of _Pantagruel_ is a parody and travesty of:

2. How does Rabelais accomplish the grotesque degradation of his target in the prologue to the Third Book?

3. What event that Rabelais relates does he assert is the origin of the name of the city of Paris?

4. What happened to Rabelais after his novel was published?

5. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

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