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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. Bakhtin believes that novels are:
(a) Utterly separate from the author's own life.
(b) Random, like stream-of-consciousness.
(c) Inherently confessional.
(d) Socially charged and polemical.

2. Why, according to Bakhtin, is Rabelais' parody of the Church not considered heresy?
(a) Rabelais follows every criticism with heartfelt praise.
(b) Rabelais maintains a comic style, so no one could mistake him for being serious.
(c) The clergy paid no attention to Rabelais' works.
(d) The Church received an annual tribute from Rabelais, so it overlooked his parodies.

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(b) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(c) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
(d) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.

4. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?
(a) With an appreciation of, and interest in, the grotesque.
(b) With complete understanding of Medieval and Renaissance culture.
(c) With disgust and negative criticism.
(d) They ignored Rabelais completely.

5. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?
(a) The individual expresses him- or herself only through the words of others.
(b) Language does not actually express anything.
(c) All languages are one.
(d) No word can actually ever be defined.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?

2. When did the Russian Revolution occur?

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

4. Bakhtin thinks that life is:

5. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:

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