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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) Invocations to the Muse.
(b) Long lists of names and epithets.
(c) Blank verse.
(d) Complaints about love.

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

3. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The arms and legs.
(b) The spiritual interior essence.
(c) The head and eyes.
(d) The material lower stratum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "Tripe" literally refers to:

2. The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates:

3. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

4. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?

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

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