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 assert is evident in Rabelais' use of games that combine play and prophecy?
(a) A highly spiritual notion of the relevance of human history.
(b) A ponderous, scholarly approach to the study of history.
(c) A disregard for the importance of historical figures.
(d) A carnivalesque conception of the historical process.

2. Curses in Renaissance folk culture tended to focus most closely upon the victim's:
(a) Spirit.
(b) Family.
(c) Body.
(d) Mind.

3. Why does Friar John beat thousands of men in his abbey?
(a) To save France from atheism.
(b) Another Friar challenged him.
(c) As a show of force to deter invaders.
(d) To save the abbey's vineyards.

4. What does Bakhtin find inadequate in Veselovsky's metaphor of Rabelais as a village boy?
(a) Veselovsky's image seems too urban for Rabelais, who only wrote about the countryside.
(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 excludes the seriousness of the boy as a budding scholar.

5. What body part is most often used in grotesque caricatures of sexual potency?
(a) The feet.
(b) The torso.
(c) The nose.
(d) The hands.