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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 are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.
(b) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.
(c) They both write mostly novels.
(d) They live in the same country.

2. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?
(a) It exhorts its readers to record in writing their own experiences of fairs and of Carnival.
(b) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(c) It simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.
(d) It begins with a detailed description of the author's hometown marketplace.

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(b) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(c) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.
(d) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.

4. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(b) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.
(c) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.
(d) Prisoners forced to entertain others.

5. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?
(a) The words are spoken in a language the listener cannot understand, so they sound like gibberish.
(b) The words combine two sides of the same form or feeling into an ambivalent but cohesive social structure.
(c) The words reflect incompatible sides of certain social classes of people.
(d) The words are carefully chosen by the speaker to disgust the listener.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Bakhtin generally finds Goethe's sense of Carnival's _____________ to agree with his own views.

3. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?

4. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

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

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