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

2. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An ironfisted dictator.
(b) An elderly scholar.
(c) A village boy.
(d) A pious priest.

3. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?
(a) The writing must strive to be as mathematically or geometrically accurate as possible in its descriptions.
(b) The author's focus must be on bodily gore, blood, death, and dying.
(c) The bodily element is universal, celebratory, positive, and exaggerated.
(d) The tone of the writing is always dark, Gothic, and depressing.

4. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Modernism.
(b) Futurism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Impressionism.

5. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?
(a) No word can actually ever be defined.
(b) The individual expresses him- or herself only through the words of others.
(c) Language does not actually express anything.
(d) All languages are one.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?

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

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

4. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?

5. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

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