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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. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From accepted to encouraged.
(b) From singular to universal.
(c) From universal to restricted.
(d) From spiritual to earthly.

2. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.
(b) The Russian Union of Writers.
(c) The Post-Revolution Press
(d) The National Writers' Agency.

3. How does Bakhtin define the novel?
(a) As a work of pure imagination.
(b) As a single-voiced text.
(c) As a worthless type of literature.
(d) As a multiplicity of styles.

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. Bakhtin thinks that life is:
(a) Inert, chaotic, and requiring the intervention of art.
(b) Meaningless and futile.
(c) A sacrifice the soul makes to the body.
(d) Organized by human acts of behavior and cognition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

2. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

3. The prologue of _Pantagruel_ is a parody and travesty of:

4. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:

5. Why does Bakhtin consider oaths, curses, and profanities elements of freedom?

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