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

2. With what portion of the body is grotesque debasement most concerned?
(a) The material lower stratum.
(b) The spiritual interior essence.
(c) The arms and legs.
(d) The head and eyes.

3. After Rabelais' time, what happens to the "body" as a general social idea?
(a) The body appears to reduce in size and strength.
(b) The body expands to include the universal consciousness.
(c) The body gets restricted and individualized.
(d) The body is exalted for its natural functions only.

4. What are the three categories of the "comic" which Bakhtin cites from Schneegans?
(a) The satiric, the clownish, and the visual.
(b) The grotesque, the ridiculous, and the satiric.
(c) The clownish, the burlesque, and the grotesque.
(d) The painted, the sketched, and the acted.

5. What does Rabelais parody in his response to the episode of Gargantua's birth?
(a) The Classical philosophy of stoicism.
(b) The Christian doctrine of submission.
(c) The Renaissance philosophy of humanism.
(d) The Medieval doctrine of faith.