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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. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?
(a) The words are carefully chosen by the speaker to disgust the listener.
(b) The words reflect incompatible sides of certain social classes of people.
(c) The words are spoken in a language the listener cannot understand, so they sound like gibberish.
(d) The words combine two sides of the same form or feeling into an ambivalent but cohesive social structure.

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

3. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) One with the earth.
(b) Frightening and terrible.
(c) Mostly comic.
(d) Generally revered.

4. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Divine retribution for one's sins.
(b) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(c) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(d) Results of public punishments for social crimes.

5. What are the "intelligentsia"?
(a) The bits of knowledge all people accumulate over their lifetimes.
(b) A group which provides an interpretation of the world.
(c) An elite spy organization.
(d) A group of exclusively male scholars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

2. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

3. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?

4. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?

5. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?

(see the answer key)

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