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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is dark and foreboding.
(b) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(c) It is innocent and childlike.
(d) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
2. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.
(b) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(c) Veselovsky's image excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.
(d) Veselovsky's image is too young at heart, for Rabelais wrote only with an old, tired voice.
3. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From universal to restricted.
(b) From singular to universal.
(c) From spiritual to earthly.
(d) From accepted to encouraged.
4. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.
(b) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.
(c) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(d) Prisoners forced to entertain others.
5. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.
(b) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
(c) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(d) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
2. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:
3. How does Bakhtin define the novel?
4. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?
5. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
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