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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Chapter 2, Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:
(a) Family ties, such as one's in-laws.
(b) Sacred themes, such as saints and relics.
(c) Monarchs who subjugated their people.
(d) Marketplace vendors who cheated their customers.

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

4. How does Bakhtin interpret the relevance of the cries of Paris to Renaissance France?
(a) The cries suggest a deep discontent in the Parisian populace.
(b) The cries negate the revitalization of the marketplace.
(c) The cries combine the reality of practical life with festive utopian universalism.
(d) The cries were the people's only method of exchanging ideas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

2. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?

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

4. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?

5. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?

(see the answer key)

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