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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 is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?
(a) The way people act differently around those of another social class.
(b) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.
(c) Man's higher spiritual calling.
(d) The celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.

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

3. "Tripe" literally refers to:
(a) The main blood vessel in the brain of a human.
(b) A type of freshwater fish.
(c) A type of songbird.
(d) The stomach and bowels of cattle.

4. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?
(a) A sobbing child.
(b) A howling wolf.
(c) A roaring storm.
(d) A crowded kitchen.

5. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Political treatises.
(b) Religious tracts.
(c) Biographies of public figures.
(d) Calendars or almanacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?

2. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:

4. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

5. In the seventeenth century, the decline of laughter as a primary force in folk culture resulted from:

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