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

2. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) Commerce and industry.
(b) The lives of ordinary people.
(c) Foreign songs, art, and stories.
(d) The affairs of royalty.

3. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Biographies of public figures.
(b) Religious tracts.
(c) Political treatises.
(d) Calendars or almanacs.

4. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?
(a) To be beautiful in and of itself.
(b) To glorify the artist.
(c) To communicate meaningful messages.
(d) To be sold for money or services.

5. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.
(b) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.
(c) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.
(d) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

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

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

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

5. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

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