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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chapter 3 - Popular - Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:
(a) Freed of the trappings of religious dogma and mysticism.
(b) Necessary to mercantile transactions.
(c) All that which linked the living to the dead.
(d) Taboo in all settings but the royal court.

2. Bakhtin asserts that "The Play in the Bower" influenced Rabelais' work specifically in its:
(a) Themes of unofficial laughter and banquet imagery.
(b) Adherence to the rules of proper religious worship.
(c) Themes of human sadness, pessimism, and regret.
(d) Demonstration of rigid and correctly class-conscious behavior.

3. The verbal interactions between the Renaissance marketplace hawker and the crowd were above all:
(a) Distantly suggestive.
(b) Timid and quiet.
(c) Free and frank.
(d) Abusive and derogatory.

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

5. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From universal to restricted.
(b) From spiritual to earthly.
(c) From accepted to encouraged.
(d) From singular to universal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bakhtin cite Goethe as a source about the nature of Carnival?

2. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:

3. In the Fourth Book, why does Villon set a trap for Tappecoue (or "Ticklepecker")?

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

5. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?

(see the answer key)

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