This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, Chapter 4 - Banquet Imagery & Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body and Its Sources.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?
(a) Materials used to build large meeting-houses.
(b) Animals sent into the wild as sacrifices.
(c) People who earn money by allowing others to beat them.
(d) Vegetables which require being strung to a pole in order to grow.

2. What are examples of carnivalesque victims?
(a) Blushing virgins and old maids.
(b) Stray dogs and street orphans.
(c) Peasants and tax collectors.
(d) Debased clowns and slaughtered oxen.

3. Bakhtin finds food and drink representative of society because:
(a) Certain societies eat only certain foods.
(b) Feasts were the only time available for socialization.
(c) The work of collecting and preparing meals was a community affair.
(d) The type of food or drink determines the type of person.

4. In Rabelais' time, the word "drum" and the act of drumming connoted:
(a) Nature.
(b) Death.
(c) Spiritual awakening.
(d) Sexuality.

5. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(b) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.
(c) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.
(d) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.