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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Chapter 7 - Rabelais' Images & His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Carnival.
(b) Fables.
(c) Death rituals.
(d) Marriage.

2. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?
(a) To move the plot along.
(b) To oppose the authoritarian word.
(c) To demonstrate thinking out loud.
(d) To give one character a strong voice.

3. What does Bakhtin find to be the greatest error other critics make in their studies of Rabelais' works?
(a) They treat Rabelais as a prophet of literary upheavals.
(b) They classify Rabelais as just as important as Shakespeare and Cervantes.
(c) They neglect to explore the element of the Renaissance folk culture.
(d) They read Rabelais' works as allegory only.

4. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?
(a) A ponderous, scholarly approach to the study of history.
(b) A highly spiritual notion of the relevance of human history.
(c) A disregard for the importance of historical figures.
(d) A carnivalesque conception of the historical process.

5. How does Gargantua's letter to Pantagruel challenge and attempt to change Catholic dogma?
(a) It assumes that the body, in addition to the soul, is also immortal.
(b) It re-envisions the doctrine of the trinity by adding humans to it.
(c) It argues that all forms of faith are equally valid.
(d) It asserts that there is no heaven, only hell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin asserts that Rabelais' language, and the language of Renaissance France, was above all:

2. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?

3. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

4. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

5. In Rabelais' novel, the words "to die" are closely associated with:

(see the answer key)

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