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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. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?
(a) Because its purpose was a mystery in the Renaissance.
(b) Because it exclusively connotes badness or evil.
(c) Because it is evidence of humankind's presence on the earth.
(d) Because it is intermediate between earth and body.

2. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Calendars or almanacs.
(b) Political treatises.
(c) Religious tracts.
(d) Biographies of public figures.

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

4. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.
(b) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.
(c) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.
(d) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Bakhtin, is Rabelais' parody of the Church not considered heresy?

2. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?

3. "Tripe" literally refers to:

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

5. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?

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