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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
(a) "Scientific."
(b) "Grotesque."
(c) "Otherworldly."
(d) "Horrifying."

3. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(b) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.
(c) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.
(d) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What in particular forms the basic elements of Rabelais' novel _Gargantua_?

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

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

4. According to Bakhtin's semiotic understanding, what irony is inherent within the creative power of language?

5. What was the reception of Rabelais' work in the eighteenth century?

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