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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 are the "intelligentsia"?
(a) The bits of knowledge all people accumulate over their lifetimes.
(b) A group of exclusively male scholars.
(c) An elite spy organization.
(d) A group which provides an interpretation of the world.

2. What event that Rabelais relates does he assert is the origin of the name of the city of Paris?
(a) A battle won by the French against the English.
(b) An earthquake that disrupts Carnival.
(c) Pantagruel's education in the druggists' shops.
(d) Gargantua's drenching of the city in urine.

3. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:
(a) Necessary to mercantile transactions.
(b) Taboo in all settings but the royal court.
(c) All that which linked the living to the dead.
(d) Freed of the trappings of religious dogma and mysticism.

4. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.
(b) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(c) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.
(d) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.

5. When did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

2. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

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

4. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?

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

(see the answer key)

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