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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. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(b) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(c) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(d) Divine retribution for one's sins.

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 simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.
(c) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(d) It begins with a detailed description of the author's hometown marketplace.

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

4. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The National Writers' Agency.
(b) The Russian Union of Writers.
(c) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.
(d) The Post-Revolution Press

5. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(b) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.
(c) By receiving a divine revelation.
(d) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?

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

3. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

4. Bakhtin believes that novels are:

5. Medieval parodies were:

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