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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chapter 2 - The Language of the Marketplace.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?
(a) Whatever the audience chooses.
(b) Only one possible message.
(c) The materials from which the art is constructed.
(d) A system of values.

3. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?
(a) To be sold for money or services.
(b) To be beautiful in and of itself.
(c) To communicate meaningful messages.
(d) To glorify the artist.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

3. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?

4. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?

5. What are the "intelligentsia"?

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