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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. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Religious tracts.
(b) Calendars or almanacs.
(c) Biographies of public figures.
(d) Political treatises.

2. After Rabelais' time, what happens to the "body" as a general social idea?
(a) The body gets restricted and individualized.
(b) The body appears to reduce in size and strength.
(c) The body is exalted for its natural functions only.
(d) The body expands to include the universal consciousness.

3. Mikhail Bakhtin is:
(a) A fictional figure created to be the mouthpiece of an anonymous author.
(b) A somewhat mysterious but increasingly interesting literary figure.
(c) The most famous Russian writer ever.
(d) A vocal Eastern Orthodox cleric.

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

5. How does Bakhtin interpret Rabelais' term "agelast"?
(a) It is a person who delights in causing pain to others.
(b) It is a person who is hostile to laughter or who does not know how to laugh.
(c) It is an elderly person whose grouchy moods isolate him/her.
(d) It is the person who brings up the rear of the great Carnival parade.

Short Answer Questions

1. What repressive organization was Bakhtin forced to join in order to continue writing?

2. What episode does Bakhtin cite as exemplifying the image of the gaping mouth prevalent in Rabelais' novel?

3. According to Schneegans, what is the grotesque in art?

4. Clowns and fools are:

5. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:

(see the answer key)

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