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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. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An ironfisted dictator.
(b) A pious priest.
(c) An elderly scholar.
(d) A village boy.

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

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

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

5. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?
(a) The biography.
(b) The novel.
(c) The epic poem.
(d) The lyric.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?

2. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

3. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

4. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?

5. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

(see the answer key)

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