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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 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 excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.
(c) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(d) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.

2. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?
(a) Many scholars believe that Rabelais himself was bitter from publication disputes.
(b) These elements express a deep distrust of contemporary society.
(c) Many scholars interpret them only in a modern context.
(d) The Latin derivations of his scatological vocabulary mean "cynical."

3. Which aspect of Renaissance culture does Bakhtin stress is still apparent in Western society today?
(a) Street cries.
(b) Carnival.
(c) Clowns and fools.
(d) Public thrashings.

4. What is especially apparent in Rabelais' own "Pantagruelesque Prognostic" prophecy?
(a) Images of the material body and of festivity.
(b) Images of the wrath of nature and of destruction.
(c) Predictions of wars and slaughter.
(d) Predictions concerning lovers.

5. In which twentieth-century movement was the grotesque especially evident?
(a) Futurism.
(b) Modernism.
(c) Expressionism.
(d) Impressionism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:

2. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?

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

4. Clowns and fools are:

5. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?

(see the answer key)

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