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 Bakhtin define the combination of human and animal organs in Rabelais' novel?
(a) "Otherworldly."
(b) "Grotesque."
(c) "Scientific."
(d) "Horrifying."

2. What event that Rabelais relates does he assert is the origin of the name of the city of Paris?
(a) A battle won by the French against the English.
(b) An earthquake that disrupts Carnival.
(c) Pantagruel's education in the druggists' shops.
(d) Gargantua's drenching of the city in urine.

3. Why does Gargantua steal the bells of the Notre Dame cathedral?
(a) To sound the alarm for an impending invasion.
(b) To frighten the townsfolk of Paris.
(c) To decorate the harness of his horse.
(d) To celebrate his marriage.

4. What significant thing did translators of Rabelais' work add to their translations?
(a) Critical inquiry of the validity of Rabelais' portrayal of marketplace culture.
(b) Lists of street cries common in their own countries.
(c) Lists of games played in their own countries.
(d) Editorial remarks in the form of footnotes.

5. How does Rabelais accomplish the grotesque degradation of his target in the prologue to the Third Book?
(a) By declaring the targets to be empty-headed.
(b) By declaring the targets incapable of the basest bodily functions.
(c) By accusing the targets of paganism and crimes against the Church.
(d) By insulting the targets' mothers.