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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:
(a) The declining number of Carnival performers.
(b) The exhaustion of any new sources of humor.
(c) An increasingly "official" culture of rationalism.
(d) The need of the public for other forms of diversion.

2. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.
(b) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(c) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(d) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.

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

4. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:
(a) Inspiration and hope.
(b) Scholarly activities.
(c) Feasting, spectacles, and sex.
(d) Fear, weakness, and violence.

5. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:
(a) Was forbidden everywhere but the marketplace.
(b) Was forbidden because of the sacredness of the festival.
(c) Was encouraged even in church.
(d) Was regulated by the town fools and farmers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?

2. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

3. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

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

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

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