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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 does the "form" of any kind of art express?
(a) The materials from which the art is constructed.
(b) Only one possible message.
(c) A system of values.
(d) Whatever the audience chooses.

2. Clowns and fools are:
(a) Prisoners forced to entertain others.
(b) Restricted to entertaining the royal court.
(c) Everyday representatives of the folk and of Carnival.
(d) Present only at large fairs or gatherings.

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

4. Bakhtin believes that novels are:
(a) Inherently confessional.
(b) Socially charged and polemical.
(c) Random, like stream-of-consciousness.
(d) Utterly separate from the author's own life.

5. Bakhtin asserts that the advertisement for "pantagruelion" in the Third Book expresses:
(a) The natural mistrust the common folk have for druggists.
(b) The cynicism rampant in Rabelais' writing.
(c) The deep optimism inherent in Rabelais' view of marketplace culture.
(d) The existentialist confusion of Renaissance marketplace culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

2. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

3. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?

4. What does Bakhtin consider the most indispensable element of folk culture?

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

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