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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 do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(b) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(c) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(d) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.

2. Who is Janotus de Bragmardo?
(a) A market vendor scheming to cheat Gargantua.
(b) A clown who mocks Gargantua at Carnival.
(c) A scholar sent to recover church bells from Gargantua.
(d) A robber who stumbles across Gargantua's treasure.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:

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

3. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?

4. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?

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

(see the answer key)

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