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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 does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Death rituals.
(b) Fables.
(c) Carnival.
(d) Marriage.

2. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.
(b) They both write mostly novels.
(c) They live in the same country.
(d) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.

3. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:
(a) Was forbidden everywhere but the marketplace.
(b) Was regulated by the town fools and farmers.
(c) Was encouraged even in church.
(d) Was forbidden because of the sacredness of the festival.

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

5. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From singular to universal.
(b) From spiritual to earthly.
(c) From accepted to encouraged.
(d) From universal to restricted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

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

3. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

4. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?

5. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?

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