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) The proper order in which to eat banquet foods.
(c) Restrictions of food for pregnant women.
(d) The ways in which chicken tasted better than pheasant.

2. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?
(a) Because the debased person may choose to deflect the debasement.
(b) Because the person saying the insult never means it seriously.
(c) Because the decaying or excretory organs are closely located to the regenerative genital organs.
(d) Because the head is quite separate from all the other parts of the body, spiritually and materially.

3. How did Rabelais obtain the material for his writings?
(a) By studying manuscripts for long hours in monasteries.
(b) By attending many fairs and festivals and observing all the people there.
(c) By interviewing thousands of market vendors.
(d) By receiving a divine revelation.

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

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