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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 common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Blank verse.
(b) Long lists of names and epithets.
(c) Invocations to the Muse.
(d) Complaints about love.

2. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.
(b) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.
(c) They live in the same country.
(d) They both write mostly novels.

3. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.
(b) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(c) Prisoners forced to entertain others.
(d) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.

4. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(b) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(c) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(d) Divine retribution for one's sins.

5. Medieval parodies were:
(a) Limited to parody of individuals.
(b) Focused on the negative aspects of society.
(c) Concerned with the positive, humorous aspects of everything.
(d) Limited to religious parody.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?

2. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

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

5. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:

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