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

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

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

4. The episode in which Pantagruel and his companions defeat King Anarchus' knights combines:
(a) Nature with artifice.
(b) Slaughter with feasting.
(c) Human instinct with forethought.
(d) Love with hate.

5. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
(a) To decorate the harness of his horse.
(b) To celebrate his marriage.
(c) To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.
(d) To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?

3. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?

4. Bakhtin discusses "Cyprian's Supper," which is a play about:

5. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

(see the answer key)

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