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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. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?
(a) Two political leaders of the different eras were incredibly alike.
(b) The literatures and cultures of both eras bore a distinct resemblance.
(c) The specific threat of disease was killing many people in both times.
(d) Both eras were times of broad social change that left people unsure of how to proceed.

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

3. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.
(b) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.
(c) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(d) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.

4. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(b) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(c) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(d) Divine retribution for one's sins.

5. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?
(a) They felt that if one could not say something nice, one should say nothing at all.
(b) They were shocked to hear the Lord's name taken in vain.
(c) They viewed such language as predominantly atheistic.
(d) They saw such language as relics of the superstitious Middle Ages.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?

2. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

3. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:

4. Bakhtin asserts that the advertisement for "pantagruelion" in the Third Book expresses:

5. How, according to Bakhtin, does the current Russian literary criticism approach Rabelais' works?

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