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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The defense of the abbey by Friar John contains:
(a) A grotesque combination of sexual intercourse and war.
(b) A debasing description of the French people.
(c) A caricature of the Pope.
(d) A travestied allusion to Communion.

2. How does Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
(a) "Scientific."
(b) "Grotesque."
(c) "Horrifying."
(d) "Otherworldly."

3. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:
(a) The act of thrashing is done out of kindness.
(b) The one who is thrashed explicitly agrees to the act.
(c) The act of thrashing is done to punish the individual.
(d) The one who is thrashed is also decorated and celebrated.

4. What work of literature is parodied in the prologue of _Gargantua_?
(a) Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_
(b) Plato's _Symposium_
(c) Dante's _Divine Comedy_
(d) Malory's _Le Morte d'Arthur_

5. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?
(a) The High Mass.
(b) Communion.
(c) Saying the Rosary.
(d) Papal indulgences.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

2. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

4. What significant thing did translators of Rabelais' work add to their translations?

5. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

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