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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Chapter 2, Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(b) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(c) It is innocent and childlike.
(d) It is dark and foreboding.

2. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) Mostly comic.
(b) One with the earth.
(c) Frightening and terrible.
(d) Generally revered.

3. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?
(a) To demonstrate thinking out loud.
(b) To give one character a strong voice.
(c) To oppose the authoritarian word.
(d) To move the plot along.

4. What work of literature is parodied in the prologue of _Gargantua_?
(a) Plato's _Symposium_
(b) Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_
(c) Dante's _Divine Comedy_
(d) Malory's _Le Morte d'Arthur_

5. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?
(a) The lyric.
(b) The epic poem.
(c) The novel.
(d) The biography.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?

2. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?

3. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?

4. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?

5. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:

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