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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. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:
(a) The idea that ancient philosophies were incorrect.
(b) The image of Rabelais himself.
(c) The abuse/praise dynamics of the marketplace.
(d) The good/evil dichotomy of mankind.

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

3. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Death and birth.
(c) Thought and spirit.
(d) Heresy.

4. What event that Rabelais relates does he assert is the origin of the name of the city of Paris?
(a) Pantagruel's education in the druggists' shops.
(b) A battle won by the French against the English.
(c) Gargantua's drenching of the city in urine.
(d) An earthquake that disrupts Carnival.

5. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
(b) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(c) Imaginative fantasy.
(d) Individual, sentimental ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

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

3. What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?

4. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?

5. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

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