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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. How does Bakhtin interpret the relevance of the cries of Paris to Renaissance France?
(a) The cries combine the reality of practical life with festive utopian universalism.
(b) The cries negate the revitalization of the marketplace.
(c) The cries were the people's only method of exchanging ideas.
(d) The cries suggest a deep discontent in the Parisian populace.

2. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:
(a) An increasingly "official" culture of rationalism.
(b) The need of the public for other forms of diversion.
(c) The declining number of Carnival performers.
(d) The exhaustion of any new sources of humor.

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 exhorts its readers to record in writing their own experiences of fairs and of Carnival.
(c) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(d) It simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.

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

5. What was the most prevalent medium of the culture of the common folk in the Renaissance?
(a) Pantomime.
(b) Semaphore signals.
(c) Printed newspapers.
(d) The spoken word.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

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

3. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

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

5. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?

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