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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Abusive and derogatory.
(b) Timid and quiet.
(c) Distantly suggestive.
(d) Free and frank.

2. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?
(a) A carnivalesque conception of the historical process.
(b) A disregard for the importance of historical figures.
(c) A ponderous, scholarly approach to the study of history.
(d) A highly spiritual notion of the relevance of human history.

3. What is the image of woman in the Renaissance popular comic tradition?
(a) Ambivalent: woman is degraded but simultaneously regenerative.
(b) Negative: woman is the source of all sin, and must be oppressed.
(c) Positive: woman is the light of the future, and must be celebrated.
(d) Materialist: woman is worth money, in her body or from her work.

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

5. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?
(a) A crowded kitchen.
(b) A sobbing child.
(c) A roaring storm.
(d) A howling wolf.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The defense of the abbey by Friar John contains:

3. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?

4. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?

5. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:

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