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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(b) Veselovsky's image excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.
(c) Veselovsky's image is too young at heart, for Rabelais wrote only with an old, tired voice.
(d) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.

3. Bakhtin asserts that in Rabelais' time, food and banquets always contained a sense of:
(a) Physical discomfort.
(b) Depression and resignation.
(c) Intellectual stimulation.
(d) Victory and regeneration.

4. In Medieval satires, the dismemberment of portions of the body relates to:
(a) The separate portions of society.
(b) The topography of the continents.
(c) The human body itself.
(d) The general conception of the divine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In grotesque realism, the body is most often represented as:

2. Bakhtin associates Friar John's beating of the men with:

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

4. How are abusive and praiseful words reflective of grotesque realism?

5. How did the French Romanticists respond to Rabelais' works?

(see the answer key)

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