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. In Rabelais' time, why was the meaning of debasement often ambivalent?
(a) Because the debased person may choose to deflect the debasement.
(b) Because the decaying or excretory organs are closely located to the regenerative genital organs.
(c) Because the person saying the insult never means it seriously.
(d) Because the head is quite separate from all the other parts of the body, spiritually and materially.

2. After Rabelais' time, the use of laughter in literature and culture moved in which direction?
(a) From singular to universal.
(b) From spiritual to earthly.
(c) From universal to restricted.
(d) From accepted to encouraged.

3. In Rabelais' works, some causes of diseases associated with the material body lower stratum are:
(a) Results of public punishments for social crimes.
(b) Results of a sickly infancy and childhood.
(c) Divine retribution for one's sins.
(d) Overindulgence in food, drink, and sex.

4. The vocabulary of the prologue of _Gargantua_ is:
(a) Purely abusive and vulgar.
(b) Quietly reflective and speculative.
(c) Loaded with comparatives and superlatives.
(d) Objective and editorially distant.

5. To what does Bakhtin compare the various cries of Paris?
(a) A roaring storm.
(b) A crowded kitchen.
(c) A sobbing child.
(d) A howling wolf.