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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chapter 2 - The Language of the Marketplace.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?
(a) Death rituals.
(b) Fables.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Carnival.

4. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?
(a) Man's higher spiritual calling.
(b) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.
(c) The way people act differently around those of another social class.
(d) The celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:

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

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

4. Bakhtin believes that novels are:

5. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

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