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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 head and eyes.
(b) The material lower stratum.
(c) The arms and legs.
(d) The spiritual interior essence.

2. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:
(a) Inspiration and hope.
(b) Fear, weakness, and violence.
(c) Scholarly activities.
(d) Feasting, spectacles, and sex.

3. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
(a) By sharing them with an eager public.
(b) By denouncing them as counterproductive to the ongoing Russian Revolution.
(c) By trying to correctly interpret the source of the cultural laughter within them.
(d) By reviving their content in new, twentieth-century forms.

4. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?
(a) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(b) It simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.
(c) It exhorts its readers to record in writing their own experiences of fairs and of Carnival.
(d) It begins with a detailed description of the author's hometown marketplace.

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) Language does not actually express anything.
(c) The individual expresses him- or herself only through the words of others.
(d) All languages are one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Bakhtin, is Rabelais' parody of the Church not considered heresy?

2. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?

3. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

4. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

5. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:

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