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

2. Bakhtin connects Medieval "seriousness" most closely to:
(a) Inspiration and hope.
(b) Fear, weakness, and violence.
(c) Scholarly activities.
(d) Feasting, spectacles, and sex.

3. The prologue of _Pantagruel_ is a parody and travesty of:
(a) The ecclesiastical persuasiveness of the Church.
(b) The fables of ancient Greece.
(c) The pomp and circumstance of the aristocracy.
(d) The ignorance of the peasantry.

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

5. The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates:
(a) The opinion that humor must be subordinate to seriousness.
(b) The importance and necessity of laughter.
(c) The confusion the author experiences with this combination.
(d) The complex explanation of the Prologue to the readers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?

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

3. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

4. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?

5. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

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