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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. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?
(a) The defeat of the French and Spanish fleets by Admiral Nelson.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The Norman Invasion.
(d) The defense of France against Charles V.

2. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?
(a) His work was viewed as unintelligible and barbaric.
(b) Other writers strove to emulate his style.
(c) His work was viewed as a revival of Classical writing.
(d) Other writers used his topics as a jumping-off point for their own works.

3. 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 is the epitome of disgusting.
(c) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.
(d) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

2. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:

3. The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates:

4. Medieval parodies were:

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

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