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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 do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(b) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(c) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.
(d) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.

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

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

4. Carnival allowed:
(a) The peasants to sell their crops without paying taxes.
(b) The endurance of the propriety expected of all social classes.
(c) The upper class to oppress relentlessly the lower class.
(d) The mixing of real and unreal, fantasy and fact.

5. Which grotesque elements does Bakhtin note were included in the procession of the feast of Corpus Christi?
(a) Representations of the sun, moon, and stars.
(b) Children dressed as animals.
(c) Monsters, giants, and indecent gestures.
(d) Self-flagellating monks.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Veselovsky compare Rabelais?

2. What are the "intelligentsia"?

3. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

4. Gargamelle gives birth to Gargantua as a result of:

5. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?

(see the answer key)

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