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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(b) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(c) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.
(d) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.

2. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.
(b) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.
(c) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.
(d) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.

3. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?
(a) Yes, especially during festivals.
(b) Yes, except for religious holidays.
(c) No, both forms of speech were highly regulated.
(d) No, except during times of war.

4. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.
(b) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.
(c) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(d) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.

5. In Rabelais' time, the word "drum" and the act of drumming connoted:
(a) Nature.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Sexuality.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?

2. Which aspect of Renaissance culture does Bakhtin stress is still apparent in Western society today?

3. How does Rabelais accomplish the grotesque degradation of his target in the prologue to the Third Book?

4. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

5. From which Catholic ritual does Panurge profit in _Pantagruel_?

(see the answer key)

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