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 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.

2. One of Rabelais' main sources for his enumerations of food was a Medieval treatise about:
(a) The ways in which chicken tasted better than pheasant.
(b) The proper order in which to eat banquet foods.
(c) Restrictions of food for pregnant women.
(d) Lenten and non-Lenten foods.

3. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.
(b) Veselovsky's image is cynical, but Rabelais actually celebrates regenerative laughter.
(c) Veselovsky's image is too young at heart, for Rabelais wrote only with an old, tired voice.
(d) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.

4. In which element of Shakespeare's dramas does Bakhtin see the overall theme of Rabelais' carnivalesque repeated?
(a) In the strengths of characters such as Hamlet and Othello.
(b) In the logic of crownings and uncrownings.
(c) In the farcical secondary characters.
(d) In the tragic elements of Shakespeare's romances.

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