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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Chapter 2 - Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. "Tripe" literally refers to:
(a) A type of freshwater fish.
(b) A type of songbird.
(c) The main blood vessel in the brain of a human.
(d) The stomach and bowels of cattle.

3. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?
(a) Because it is evidence of humankind's presence on the earth.
(b) Because it is intermediate between earth and body.
(c) Because its purpose was a mystery in the Renaissance.
(d) Because it exclusively connotes badness or evil.

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

5. What work of literature is parodied in the prologue of _Gargantua_?
(a) Plato's _Symposium_
(b) Chaucer's _Canterbury Tales_
(c) Dante's _Divine Comedy_
(d) Malory's _Le Morte d'Arthur_

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?

3. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

4. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

5. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:

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