1. "Friar John" is heavily associated with:
(a) Nature and the earth.
(b) Food and battles.
(c) Sex and love.
(d) Intellect and spirit.

2. What are the "intelligentsia"?
(a) A group of exclusively male scholars.
(b) The bits of knowledge all people accumulate over their lifetimes.
(c) A group which provides an interpretation of the world.
(d) An elite spy organization.

3. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Representatives of old, hypocritical, serious Medieval philosophy.
(b) Foreign travelers who have offended the traditions of Carnival.
(c) Members of the aristocracy whose political ideals are not in keeping with Rabelais' ideals.
(d) Average townsfolk who have imbibed too much wine.

4. How does the prologue of _Pantagruel_ demonstrate the connection between literature and the marketplace?
(a) It offers a pricey alternative to illiteracy.
(b) It simultaneously advertises itself and praises the public.
(c) It exhorts its readers to record in writing their own experiences of fairs and of Carnival.
(d) It begins with a detailed description of the author's hometown marketplace.

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