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

2. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Mind.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Family.

3. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?
(a) The words reflect incompatible sides of certain social classes of people.
(b) The words are spoken in a language the listener cannot understand, so they sound like gibberish.
(c) The words combine two sides of the same form or feeling into an ambivalent but cohesive social structure.
(d) The words are carefully chosen by the speaker to disgust the listener.

4. How does Bakhtin define the novel?
(a) As a work of pure imagination.
(b) As a worthless type of literature.
(c) As a multiplicity of styles.
(d) As a single-voiced text.

5. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?
(a) They ignored Rabelais completely.
(b) With complete understanding of Medieval and Renaissance culture.
(c) With disgust and negative criticism.
(d) With an appreciation of, and interest in, the grotesque.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?

2. "Tripe" literally refers to:

3. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?

4. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

5. What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?

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