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

2. Carnival allowed:
(a) The endurance of the propriety expected of all social classes.
(b) The peasants to sell their crops without paying taxes.
(c) The mixing of real and unreal, fantasy and fact.
(d) The upper class to oppress relentlessly the lower class.

3. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The head and eyes.
(b) The arms and legs.
(c) The material lower stratum.
(d) The spiritual interior essence.

4. Bakhtin believes that novels are:
(a) Inherently confessional.
(b) Random, like stream-of-consciousness.
(c) Socially charged and polemical.
(d) Utterly separate from the author's own life.

5. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) Commerce and industry.
(b) The affairs of royalty.
(c) The lives of ordinary people.
(d) Foreign songs, art, and stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bakhtin argue is the role of dialogue?

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

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

4. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

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

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