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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 material lower stratum.
(c) The head and eyes.
(d) The arms and legs.

2. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.
(b) They both write mostly novels.
(c) They live in the same country.
(d) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.

3. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?
(a) The words are spoken in a language the listener cannot understand, so they sound like gibberish.
(b) The words reflect incompatible sides of certain social classes of people.
(c) The words combine two sides of the same form or feeling into an ambivalent but cohesive social structure.
(d) The words are carefully chosen by the speaker to disgust the listener.

4. Bakhtin thinks that life is:
(a) Inert, chaotic, and requiring the intervention of art.
(b) Organized by human acts of behavior and cognition.
(c) A sacrifice the soul makes to the body.
(d) Meaningless and futile.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:

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

3. What do some critics argue has been absent from Russian literature?

4. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

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

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