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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Average townsfolk who have imbibed too much wine.
(b) Representatives of old, hypocritical, serious Medieval philosophy.
(c) Foreign travelers who have offended the traditions of Carnival.
(d) Members of the aristocracy whose political ideals are not in keeping with Rabelais' ideals.

2. The combination of solemnity and joking in the tone of the Prologue to the Third Book indicates:
(a) The complex explanation of the Prologue to the readers.
(b) The importance and necessity of laughter.
(c) The opinion that humor must be subordinate to seriousness.
(d) The confusion the author experiences with this combination.

3. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?
(a) The National Writers' Agency.
(b) The Russian Union of Writers.
(c) The Post-Revolution Press
(d) The Soviet Society of National Fiction.

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

5. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Sexual intercourse.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Defecation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rabelais' description of Alcibiades reflects:

2. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:

3. Bakhtin considers "thrashing" ambivalent, rather than strictly negative, because:

4. What does Bakhtin assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?

5. How is the figure of the king treated in Rabelais' writing?

(see the answer key)

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