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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. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?
(a) With an appreciation of, and interest in, the grotesque.
(b) With complete understanding of Medieval and Renaissance culture.
(c) With disgust and negative criticism.
(d) They ignored Rabelais completely.

2. What was the most prevalent medium of the culture of the common folk in the Renaissance?
(a) Semaphore signals.
(b) Pantomime.
(c) The spoken word.
(d) Printed newspapers.

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

4. What does Bakhtin find to be the greatest error other critics make in their studies of Rabelais' works?
(a) They treat Rabelais as a prophet of literary upheavals.
(b) They read Rabelais' works as allegory only.
(c) They classify Rabelais as just as important as Shakespeare and Cervantes.
(d) They neglect to explore the element of the Renaissance folk culture.

5. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.
(b) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(c) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.
(d) Prisoners forced to entertain others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?

2. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?

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

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

5. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

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