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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Complaints about love.
(b) Invocations to the Muse.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Long lists of names and epithets.

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

3. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:
(a) Sexual intercourse.
(b) Defecation.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Religious fervor.

4. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?
(a) To be beautiful in and of itself.
(b) To glorify the artist.
(c) To communicate meaningful messages.
(d) To be sold for money or services.

5. "Tripe" literally refers to:
(a) A type of songbird.
(b) The stomach and bowels of cattle.
(c) A type of freshwater fish.
(d) The main blood vessel in the brain of a human.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?

2. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

3. Medieval parodies were:

4. What are the "intelligentsia"?

5. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?

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