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

2. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?
(a) Members of the aristocracy whose political ideals are not in keeping with Rabelais' ideals.
(b) Average townsfolk who have imbibed too much wine.
(c) Foreign travelers who have offended the traditions of Carnival.
(d) Representatives of old, hypocritical, serious Medieval philosophy.

3. Bakhtin asserts that man introduces the world to himself primarily through which act?
(a) Eating.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Observing nature.
(d) Sexual intercourse.

4. What does the "form" of any kind of art express?
(a) Whatever the audience chooses.
(b) The materials from which the art is constructed.
(c) Only one possible message.
(d) A system of values.

5. In Rabelais' time, jurons, or profanities and oaths, were most often concerned with:
(a) Sacred themes, such as saints and relics.
(b) Family ties, such as one's in-laws.
(c) Monarchs who subjugated their people.
(d) Marketplace vendors who cheated their customers.