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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 argue is the role of dialogue?
(a) To demonstrate thinking out loud.
(b) To move the plot along.
(c) To oppose the authoritarian word.
(d) To give one character a strong voice.

2. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?
(a) Physically demanding activities.
(b) Interactions between men and women.
(c) The way young people are educated.
(d) Herbs and medicines.

3. 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.

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

5. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(b) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(c) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(d) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Bakhtin, is Rabelais' parody of the Church not considered heresy?

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

3. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

4. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:

5. Bakhtin thinks that life is:

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