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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Impressionism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Futurism.

2. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?
(a) Because the decaying or excretory organs are closely located to the regenerative genital organs.
(b) Because the person saying the insult never means it seriously.
(c) Because the head is quite separate from all the other parts of the body, spiritually and materially.
(d) Because the debased person may choose to deflect the debasement.

3. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It is the epitome of disgusting.
(b) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.
(c) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(d) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?

2. Carnival allowed:

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

4. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

5. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

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