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

2. Medieval parodies were:
(a) Concerned with the positive, humorous aspects of everything.
(b) Limited to parody of individuals.
(c) Limited to religious parody.
(d) Focused on the negative aspects of society.

3. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?
(a) To be sold for money or services.
(b) To glorify the artist.
(c) To communicate meaningful messages.
(d) To be beautiful in and of itself.

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

5. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?
(a) Because the decaying or excretory organs are closely located to the regenerative genital organs.
(b) Because the debased person may choose to deflect the debasement.
(c) Because the head is quite separate from all the other parts of the body, spiritually and materially.
(d) Because the person saying the insult never means it seriously.

Short Answer Questions

1. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?

2. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

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

4. Carnival allowed:

5. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?

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