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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 did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1945.

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

3. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:
(a) An increasingly "official" culture of rationalism.
(b) The exhaustion of any new sources of humor.
(c) The need of the public for other forms of diversion.
(d) The declining number of Carnival performers.

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

5. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Fables.
(b) Death rituals.
(c) Carnival.
(d) Marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?

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

4. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?

5. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?

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