This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Chapter 5 - The Grotesque Image of the Body Concludes and Chapter 6 - Images of the Material Bodily Lower Stratum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the Lord of Basche contrive to bring Catchpoles to his castle?
(a) By giving away his possessions.
(b) By celebrating Mass.
(c) By celebrating mock weddings.
(d) By offering people absolution from their sins.

2. What is the image of woman in the Renaissance popular comic tradition?
(a) Positive: woman is the light of the future, and must be celebrated.
(b) Materialist: woman is worth money, in her body or from her work.
(c) Negative: woman is the source of all sin, and must be oppressed.
(d) Ambivalent: woman is degraded but simultaneously regenerative.

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

4. What common fifteenth- and sixteenth-century literary device does Bakhtin identify in the Prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Long lists of names and epithets.
(b) Blank verse.
(c) Invocations to the Muse.
(d) Complaints about love.

5. How is the Rabelaisian use of tripe an excellent example of grotesque realism?
(a) It is a drug which offers the user a glimpse of a higher plane of existence.
(b) It is the epitome of disgusting.
(c) It merges the positive and negative, or upper and lower, spheres of the body.
(d) It combines fantasy with reality in one type of cuisine.