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

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

3. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(b) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.
(c) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.
(d) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.

4. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image is too young at heart, for Rabelais wrote only with an old, tired voice.
(b) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(c) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.
(d) Veselovsky's image excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.

5. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The material lower stratum.
(b) The arms and legs.
(c) The spiritual interior essence.
(d) The head and eyes.