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

2. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Free and frank.
(b) Timid and quiet.
(c) Distantly suggestive.
(d) Abusive and derogatory.

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

4. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?
(a) The tone of the writing is always dark, Gothic, and depressing.
(b) The author's focus must be on bodily gore, blood, death, and dying.
(c) The bodily element is universal, celebratory, positive, and exaggerated.
(d) The writing must strive to be as mathematically or geometrically accurate as possible in its descriptions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

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

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

4. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?

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

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