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. One of Rabelais' main sources for his enumerations of food was a Medieval treatise about:
(a) Lenten and non-Lenten foods.
(b) Restrictions of food for pregnant women.
(c) The ways in which chicken tasted better than pheasant.
(d) The proper order in which to eat banquet foods.

2. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?
(a) To save the abbey's vineyards.
(b) To save France from atheism.
(c) Another Friar challenged him.
(d) As a show of force to deter invaders.

3. 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 the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.
(c) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(d) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.

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

5. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?
(a) Like a clown: beaten, travestied, and transformed.
(b) Like a child: pampered, sheltered, and beloved.
(c) Like a criminal: charged, tried, and punished.
(d) Like a god: worshipped, feared, and obeyed.