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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?
(a) A particularly Western type of humor.
(b) Religious fervor.
(c) Sexually-charged dialogue.
(d) Political dissent.

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

3. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The material lower stratum.
(b) The head and eyes.
(c) The spiritual interior essence.
(d) The arms and legs.

4. How does Bakhtin define the novel?
(a) As a single-voiced text.
(b) As a worthless type of literature.
(c) As a multiplicity of styles.
(d) As a work of pure imagination.

5. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) Individual, sentimental ideas.
(b) Imaginative fantasy.
(c) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(d) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin thinks that life is:

2. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:

3. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?

4. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

5. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

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