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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. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(b) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
(c) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(d) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.

2. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:
(a) Objective and editorially distant.
(b) Quietly reflective and speculative.
(c) Loaded with comparatives and superlatives.
(d) Purely abusive and vulgar.

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

4. Carnival allowed:
(a) The endurance of the propriety expected of all social classes.
(b) The upper class to oppress relentlessly the lower class.
(c) The mixing of real and unreal, fantasy and fact.
(d) The peasants to sell their crops without paying taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

2. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

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

5. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?

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