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 do wine and oil symbolize in Rabelais' novel?
(a) Since both are flammable, they symbolize hellfire.
(b) Free, festive speech versus religious piety and seriousness.
(c) Hard harvest work in the vineyards and olive groves.
(d) Sickness and hangovers versus a useful cooking ingredient.

2. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.
(b) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(c) By receiving a divine revelation.
(d) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.

3. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.
(b) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.
(c) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(d) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.

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

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