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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 do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?
(a) Sexually-charged dialogue.
(b) Political dissent.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) A particularly Western type of humor.

2. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?
(a) The defense of France against Charles V.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The Norman Invasion.
(d) The defeat of the French and Spanish fleets by Admiral Nelson.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?

3. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?

4. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

5. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

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