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. Bakhtin asserts that the spirit of Carnival is essentially:
(a) One of dullness and duty.
(b) One of immortality and regeneration.
(c) One of innocence and confusion.
(d) One of pessimism and regression.

2. Did the "unofficial" and "official" forms of speech ever coincide?
(a) Yes, except for religious holidays.
(b) Yes, especially during festivals.
(c) No, except during times of war.
(d) No, both forms of speech were highly regulated.

3. Why was Rabelais linked so closely to the Lyon fairs?
(a) Rabelais was a chief organizer of these fairs.
(b) Lyon fairs represented one of the largest markets for publishing.
(c) The organizers of the fairs in Lyon banned Rabelais from attending them.
(d) Rabelais was a performing clown for several years in these fairs.

4. What is a "marketplace spectacle"?
(a) Specifically the public whipping of a criminal in the center of the marketplace.
(b) A theatrical production arranged atop a platform in the center of the marketplace.
(c) The mundane goings-on of a typical French Renaissance marketplace.
(d) A series of booths dedicated solely to bilking customers out of their money.

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