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. What is "man's second nature," according to Renaissance Christian doctrine?
(a) Man's higher spiritual calling.
(b) The way people act differently around those of another social class.
(c) The celebratory but degrading impulse toward gluttony, scatology, and sex.
(d) The thoughtfulness of the individual mind.

2. 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.

3. What does Bakhtin find to be the greatest error other critics make in their studies of Rabelais' works?
(a) They read Rabelais' works as allegory only.
(b) They treat Rabelais as a prophet of literary upheavals.
(c) They neglect to explore the element of the Renaissance folk culture.
(d) They classify Rabelais as just as important as Shakespeare and Cervantes.

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

5. Why was gaming very important in the Renaissance?
(a) Gaming reinforced the "official" ways of thinking.
(b) Games defined the distinction between social classes.
(c) Gaming was deemed sinful and was forbidden by the Church.
(d) Games represented another form of understanding the cycle of life.