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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. In Rabelais' novel, the words "to die" are closely associated with:
(a) Passing out after drinking too much wine.
(b) Losing a debate with a scholar.
(c) Sexual fulfillment.
(d) Being eaten or swallowed up.

2. What do oaths and curses have in common with town announcements and the calls of vendors?
(a) They all are familiar parts of the society of the marketplace.
(b) They all are forbidden during certain times of the year.
(c) They are all said with the same feelings in mind.
(d) They are the only socially acceptable methods of greeting strangers.

3. How does the Lord of Basche contrive to bring Catchpoles to his castle?
(a) By celebrating mock weddings.
(b) By giving away his possessions.
(c) By celebrating Mass.
(d) By offering people absolution from their sins.

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

5. Bakhtin associates Friar John's beating of the men with:
(a) The last charge of Charlemagne.
(b) Juvenalian satires of public figures.
(c) Market vendors who assault non-paying customers.
(d) The Dionysian feast of the grape harvest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin finds food and drink representative of society because:

2. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.

3. Bakhtin notes that two of the most commonly combined themes in Medieval popular literature relating to monks are:

4. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:

5. What do wine and oil symbolize in Rabelais' novel?

(see the answer key)

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