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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. In the folklore and grotesque realism of Rabelais' works, excrement represents bodies and matter that are:
(a) Generally revered.
(b) One with the earth.
(c) Mostly comic.
(d) Frightening and terrible.

2. What are the "Catchpoles" of which Rabelais writes?
(a) Materials used to build large meeting-houses.
(b) Vegetables which require being strung to a pole in order to grow.
(c) Animals sent into the wild as sacrifices.
(d) People who earn money by allowing others to beat them.

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?
(a) It was purely a religious revolt.
(b) It continues into the present day.
(c) Only the elite class was involved.
(d) People of all classes and occupations were centrally involved.

4. In the Prologue of the Third Book, to which contemporary events does Rabelais allude?
(a) The defeat of the French and Spanish fleets by Admiral Nelson.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The defense of France against Charles V.
(d) The Norman Invasion.

5. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
(a) To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.
(b) To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.
(c) To celebrate his marriage.
(d) To decorate the harness of his horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Rabelais expresses the debasement of suffering and fear by associating them with:

2. Who is Janotus de Bragmardo?

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

4. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?

5. Why, according to Bakhtin, does Rabelais treat excrement ambivalently?

(see the answer key)

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