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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. "Tripe" literally refers to:
(a) The main blood vessel in the brain of a human.
(b) The stomach and bowels of cattle.
(c) A type of songbird.
(d) A type of freshwater fish.

2. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?
(a) To give one character a strong voice.
(b) To demonstrate thinking out loud.
(c) To oppose the authoritarian word.
(d) To move the plot along.

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

4. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Spirit.
(b) Mind.
(c) Body.
(d) Family.

5. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(b) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(c) It is dark and foreboding.
(d) It is innocent and childlike.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?

3. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?

4. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?

5. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

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