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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. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?
(a) Only the elite class was involved.
(b) It was purely a religious revolt.
(c) It continues into the present day.
(d) People of all classes and occupations were centrally involved.

2. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The Post-Revolution Press
(b) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.
(c) The National Writers' Agency.
(d) The Russian Union of Writers.

3. Bakhtin thinks that life is:
(a) Meaningless and futile.
(b) A sacrifice the soul makes to the body.
(c) Inert, chaotic, and requiring the intervention of art.
(d) Organized by human acts of behavior and cognition.

4. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(b) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(c) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.
(d) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?

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

3. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

4. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?

5. What are the "intelligentsia"?

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