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

3. When did the Russian Revolution occur?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1917.

4. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?
(a) Sexually-charged dialogue.
(b) Political dissent.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) A particularly Western type of humor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?

2. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

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

4. What are the "intelligentsia"?

5. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:

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