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

2. Which answer best describes "grotesque realism"?
(a) The tone of the writing is always dark, Gothic, and depressing.
(b) The author's focus must be on bodily gore, blood, death, and dying.
(c) The writing must strive to be as mathematically or geometrically accurate as possible in its descriptions.
(d) The bodily element is universal, celebratory, positive, and exaggerated.

3. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?
(a) Individual, sentimental ideas.
(b) Neoclassical, rational, Enlightenment thought.
(c) Imaginative fantasy.
(d) The rediscovered works of Shakespeare and Cervantes.

4. What style does Bakhtin find the prologue of _Pantagruel_ to be written in?
(a) It is ironic and maliciously exaggerated.
(b) It is rhetorical and persuasive.
(c) It is innocent and childlike.
(d) It is dark and foreboding.

5. Why does Bakhtin cite Goethe as a source about the nature of Carnival?
(a) Goethe and Rabelais were contemporaries and corresponded with each other regularly.
(b) Goethe's negative views about the common people provide a counterpoint to Bakhtin's views.
(c) Goethe was the official organizer of Carnival in Frankfurt.
(d) Goethe was passionately interested in the festivity.