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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. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?
(a) It was purely a religious revolt.
(b) It continues into the present day.
(c) Only the elite class was involved.
(d) People of all classes and occupations were centrally involved.

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

3. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:
(a) Indicate the importance of travel to an individual's self-development.
(b) Reassert traditional definitions of social and spiritual life.
(c) Irreversibly denigrate everything it could.
(d) Call upon something serious and make it amusing.

4. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.
(b) By receiving a divine revelation.
(c) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(d) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.

5. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?
(a) Historical allusions.
(b) Classical myths.
(c) Predictions of the future.
(d) Autobiographical observations of Rabelais' own life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:

2. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

3. "Tripe" literally refers to:

4. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:

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

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