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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bakhtin thinks that life is:
(a) Inert, chaotic, and requiring the intervention of art.
(b) Organized by human acts of behavior and cognition.
(c) A sacrifice the soul makes to the body.
(d) Meaningless and futile.

2. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.
(b) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(c) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.
(d) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?
(a) It was purely a religious revolt.
(b) It continues into the present day.
(c) Only the elite class was involved.
(d) People of all classes and occupations were centrally involved.

4. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?
(a) Predictions of the future.
(b) Historical allusions.
(c) Autobiographical observations of Rabelais' own life.
(d) Classical myths.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

2. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:

3. Carnival allowed:

4. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

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

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