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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 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 series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.
(d) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.

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

3. Bakhtin asserts that man introduces the world to himself primarily through which act?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sexual intercourse.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Observing nature.

4. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?
(a) An elderly scholar.
(b) An ironfisted dictator.
(c) A village boy.
(d) A pious priest.

5. "Fat William," of comic folklore, symbolized:
(a) Bread and wine in bodily form.
(b) The health risks of obesity.
(c) The entire body of the people.
(d) Catholicism's huge influence in Europe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?

2. Bakhtin associates Friar John's beating of the men with:

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

4. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?

5. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?

(see the answer key)

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