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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, Chapter 7 - Rabelais' Images & His Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Comic rituals in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were:
(a) Freed of the trappings of religious dogma and mysticism.
(b) Taboo in all settings but the royal court.
(c) All that which linked the living to the dead.
(d) Necessary to mercantile transactions.

2. The episode in which Pantagruel and his companions defeat King Anarchus' knights combines:
(a) Nature with artifice.
(b) Human instinct with forethought.
(c) Slaughter with feasting.
(d) Love with hate.

3. According to Bakhtin, the "birth" of the word by the clown is an example of:
(a) The privileging of intellect over the baser functions of the body.
(b) The inherent comedic potential of words and speech.
(c) The switching of the lower bodily functions with the higher ones.
(d) The difficulty of spreading information in an illiterate culture.

4. What does Rabelais associate closely with the underworld?
(a) Mountains and ridges.
(b) The depths of the human heart.
(c) Various types of holes.
(d) Bodily depression after too much feasting.

5. What type of work did Rabelais often publish, especially for the fairs?
(a) Political treatises.
(b) Religious tracts.
(c) Calendars or almanacs.
(d) Biographies of public figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bakhtin asserts that beatings, death, feasting, and merrymaking are all integral parts of:

2. Medieval parodies were:

3. What are the targets of the abusive language in Rabelais' prologue to the Third Book?

4. "Fat William," of comic folklore, symbolized:

5. One of Rabelais' main sources for his enumerations of food was a Medieval treatise about:

(see the answer key)

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