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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 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) A battle won by the French against the English.
(c) An earthquake that disrupts Carnival.
(d) Pantagruel's education in the druggists' shops.

2. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?
(a) Yes, except for religious holidays.
(b) No, except during times of war.
(c) Yes, especially during festivals.
(d) No, both forms of speech were highly regulated.

3. During the "feast of fools" and the "feast of the ass," laughter:
(a) Was regulated by the town fools and farmers.
(b) Was forbidden because of the sacredness of the festival.
(c) Was encouraged even in church.
(d) Was forbidden everywhere but the marketplace.

4. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.
(b) It is the epitome of disgusting.
(c) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(d) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bakhtin define the novel?

3. Why did Bakhtin feel his times were comparable to those of the Renaissance?

4. Bakhtin believes that novels are:

5. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

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