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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. What does Bakhtin consider the "symposium" of Medieval grotesque realism?
(a) Vows spoken between lovers.
(b) Refereed debates between two clergymen.
(c) The tradition of festive speech.
(d) Bear-baiting in the town square.

2. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:
(a) Greed which results in a shortage of food.
(b) A man who fasted for a year.
(c) Figures from the Bible at a great feast.
(d) A wedding banquet for a prince.

3. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:
(a) The act of thrashing is done to punish the individual.
(b) The one who is thrashed explicitly agrees to the act.
(c) The one who is thrashed is also decorated and celebrated.
(d) The act of thrashing is done out of kindness.

4. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?
(a) Because the head is quite separate from all the other parts of the body, spiritually and materially.
(b) Because the decaying or excretory organs are closely located to the regenerative genital organs.
(c) Because the debased person may choose to deflect the debasement.
(d) Because the person saying the insult never means it seriously.

5. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.
(a) Banquet images.
(b) Acts of war.
(c) Intelligent scholars.
(d) Secrets of lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Rabelais' time, the word "drum" and the act of drumming connoted:

2. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:

3. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

4. One of Rabelais' main sources for his enumerations of food was a Medieval treatise about:

5. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

(see the answer key)

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