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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. Why was gaming very important in the Renaissance?
(a) Gaming reinforced the "official" ways of thinking.
(b) Gaming was deemed sinful and was forbidden by the Church.
(c) Games defined the distinction between social classes.
(d) Games represented another form of understanding the cycle of life.

2. What does Panurge fear if he gets married?
(a) That his wife will never love him.
(b) That he will eventually be cuckolded.
(c) That he will not be able to have a son.
(d) That he will marry an ugly woman.

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

4. How are Bakhtin and Rabelais similar?
(a) They both subvert the social prohibition on laughter, satire, and irony.
(b) They both directly challenge the government by running for political office.
(c) They both write mostly novels.
(d) They live in the same country.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Bakhtin, what is the function of art?

3. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

4. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:

5. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?

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