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

2. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is innocent and childlike.
(b) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(c) It is dark and foreboding.
(d) It is rhetorical and persuasive.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?

2. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?

3. What does Bakhtin find to be the greatest error other critics make in their studies of Rabelais' works?

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

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

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