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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) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(b) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(c) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(d) Divine retribution for one's sins.

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

3. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Modernism.
(d) Futurism.

4. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.
(b) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(c) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.
(d) It is the epitome of disgusting.

5. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(b) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.
(c) Prisoners forced to entertain others.
(d) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin thinks that life is:

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

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

4. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

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

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