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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. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:
(a) Taboo in all settings but the royal court.
(b) Necessary to mercantile transactions.
(c) Freed of the trappings of religious dogma and mysticism.
(d) All that which linked the living to the dead.

2. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?
(a) Because it exclusively connotes badness or evil.
(b) Because it is evidence of humankind's presence on the earth.
(c) Because its purpose was a mystery in the Renaissance.
(d) Because it is intermediate between earth and body.

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

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

5. What does young Gargantua study in order to become acquainted with the common folk?
(a) The way young people are educated.
(b) Physically demanding activities.
(c) Interactions between men and women.
(d) Herbs and medicines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Renaissance humanists attempt to suppress oaths and profanities?

2. During Bakhtin's time, what genre was being closely defined by the Soviet government?

3. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?

4. In the Renaissance, bodily excretions were closely associated with:

5. What are the "intelligentsia"?

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