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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Chapter 3 - Popular-Festive Forms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rabelais' various works indicate about the popular notion of urination?
(a) Urination can only be used for comic purposes.
(b) Urination is disgusting and should be done privately.
(c) Urination fertilizes the earth and creates bodies of water.
(d) Urination is a medical mystery that baffles doctors.

2. Bakhtin asserts that in the episode of Gargantua's birth, the dividing lines between _______ are erased.
(a) Children and adults.
(b) Human and animal consciousness.
(c) Earthly and divine spiritual relationships.
(d) Human and animal organs.

3. What was unique about the Russian Revolution?
(a) People of all classes and occupations were centrally involved.
(b) It was purely a religious revolt.
(c) Only the elite class was involved.
(d) It continues into the present day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The figure of the Physician in the Fourth Book is closely connected with:

2. How does Rabelais accomplish the grotesque degradation of his target in the prologue to the Third Book?

3. When the grotesque was revived in the Romantic era, what did it react against?

4. The core images of the prologue of _Gargantua_ are:

5. According to Bakhtin, Carnival was the true symbol and incarnation of:

(see the answer key)

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