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

2. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:
(a) The Renaissance system of images that is perpetually regenerative and never decaying.
(b) The methods of marketplace vendors in overpricing their goods.
(c) The Renaissance notion that all which is already established is perfect.
(d) Rabelais' view of the proper treatment of foreigners and peasants.

3. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.
(a) Secrets of lovers.
(b) Acts of war.
(c) Intelligent scholars.
(d) Banquet images.

4. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.
(b) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.
(c) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.
(d) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:

2. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?

3. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

4. The episode in which Pantagruel and his companions defeat King Anarchus' knights combines:

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

(see the answer key)

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