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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. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) Foreign songs, art, and stories.
(b) The lives of ordinary people.
(c) Commerce and industry.
(d) The affairs of royalty.

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

3. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) Individual, sentimental ideas.
(b) Imaginative fantasy.
(c) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
(d) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?

2. What are the "intelligentsia"?

3. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

4. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

5. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?

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