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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. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:
(a) The Renaissance system of images that is perpetually regenerative and never decaying.
(b) The methods of marketplace vendors in overpricing their goods.
(c) The Renaissance notion that all which is already established is perfect.
(d) Rabelais' view of the proper treatment of foreigners and peasants.

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

3. Bakhtin notes that two of the most commonly combined themes in Medieval popular literature relating to monks are:
(a) Piety and cruelty.
(b) Gluttony and desire.
(c) Sex and death.
(d) Envy and greed.

4. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
(a) To celebrate his marriage.
(b) To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.
(c) To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.
(d) To decorate the harness of his horse.

5. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) One with the earth.
(b) Frightening and terrible.
(c) Mostly comic.
(d) Generally revered.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rabelais' novel, the words "to die" are closely associated with:

2. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?

3. Bakhtin asserts that in Rabelais' time, food and banquets always contained a sense of:

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

5. Bakhtin asserts that man introduces the world to himself primarily through which act?

(see the answer key)

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