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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. Bakhtin finds that ___________ are especially closely interwoven with the grotesque body.
(a) Banquet images.
(b) Intelligent scholars.
(c) Secrets of lovers.
(d) Acts of war.

2. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(b) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(c) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.
(d) Divine retribution for one's sins.

3. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?
(a) A crowded kitchen.
(b) A sobbing child.
(c) A roaring storm.
(d) A howling wolf.

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

5. Bakhtin asserts that Rabelais' grotesque conception of the body reflected:
(a) The Classical philosophy of Epicureanism.
(b) The Medieval doctrine of natural hierarchy.
(c) The Calvinist idea of predestination and grace.
(d) The Renaissance re-envisioning of the cosmos.

Short Answer Questions

1. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:

2. Why are Rabelais' billingsgate elements considered "coarse and cynical" by most scholars?

3. Why was gaming very important in the Renaissance?

4. In the Renaissance, bodily excretions were closely associated with:

5. In the example Schneegans offers, what does Rabelais' Friar John assert makes women fertile?

(see the answer key)

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