This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were "street cries"?
(a) The warnings people yell when they throw the contents of their chamber pot out the window.
(b) The sobs of orphans who live on the street.
(c) The shouted, versified advertisements of market vendors.
(d) The calls of the city bellringer telling the time.

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

3. In which element of Shakespeare's dramas does Bakhtin see the overall theme of Rabelais' carnivalesque repeated?
(a) In the tragic elements of Shakespeare's romances.
(b) In the strengths of characters such as Hamlet and Othello.
(c) In the logic of crownings and uncrownings.
(d) In the farcical secondary characters.

4. The purpose of "travesty" in folk festivals was to:
(a) Irreversibly denigrate everything it could.
(b) Indicate the importance of travel to an individual's self-development.
(c) Call upon something serious and make it amusing.
(d) Reassert traditional definitions of social and spiritual life.

5. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The head and eyes.
(b) The arms and legs.
(c) The material lower stratum.
(d) The spiritual interior essence.