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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. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Abusive and derogatory.
(b) Distantly suggestive.
(c) Free and frank.
(d) Timid and quiet.

2. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(b) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(c) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(d) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.

3. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Mind.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Body.
(d) Family.

4. With what is "folk culture" most concerned?
(a) Commerce and industry.
(b) The affairs of royalty.
(c) The lives of ordinary people.
(d) Foreign songs, art, and stories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?

2. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?

3. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:

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

5. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:

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