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

2. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(b) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(c) It is dark and foreboding.
(d) It is innocent and childlike.

3. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Religious tracts.
(b) Calendars or almanacs.
(c) Political treatises.
(d) Biographies of public figures.

4. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
(a) By trying to correctly interpret the source of the cultural laughter within them.
(b) By sharing them with an eager public.
(c) By reviving their content in new, twentieth-century forms.
(d) By denouncing them as counterproductive to the ongoing Russian Revolution.

5. When did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1850.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

2. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?

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

4. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?

5. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

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