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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Chapter 2, Language of the Marketplace Cont..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Foreign travelers who have offended the traditions of Carnival.
(b) Representatives of old, hypocritical, serious Medieval philosophy.
(c) Members of the aristocracy whose political ideals are not in keeping with Rabelais' ideals.
(d) Average townsfolk who have imbibed too much wine.

2. What were "street cries"?
(a) The sobs of orphans who live on the street.
(b) The calls of the city bellringer telling the time.
(c) The warnings people yell when they throw the contents of their chamber pot out the window.
(d) The shouted, versified advertisements of market vendors.

3. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?
(a) It begins with a detailed description of the author's hometown marketplace.
(b) It simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.
(c) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(d) It exhorts its readers to record in writing their own experiences of fairs and of Carnival.

4. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) Generally revered.
(b) Frightening and terrible.
(c) Mostly comic.
(d) One with the earth.

5. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) The lives of ordinary people.
(b) Foreign songs, art, and stories.
(c) Commerce and industry.
(d) The affairs of royalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

2. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?

3. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

4. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:

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

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