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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. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(b) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.
(c) It is the epitome of disgusting.
(d) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.

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

3. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(b) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.
(c) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(d) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.

4. 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 receiving a divine revelation.
(d) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.

5. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?
(a) By reviving their content in new, twentieth-century forms.
(b) By sharing them with an eager public.
(c) By denouncing them as counterproductive to the ongoing Russian Revolution.
(d) By trying to correctly interpret the source of the cultural laughter within them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?

3. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?

4. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:

5. Bakhtin thinks that life is:

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