Gargantua and Pantagruel - Quiz
A) Gargantua B) Mikhail Bakhtin C) François Rabelais D) Renaissance
A) 1985 B) 1956 C) 1965 D) 1960
A) A minor essay B) A modern novel C) A failure D) A classic
A) Celebrated B) Praised universally C) Misunderstood D) Ignored completely
A) Recover ignored or suppressed sections B) Translate it into modern English C) Rewrite the entire plot D) Turn it into a play
A) Interview Rabelais' descendants B) Conduct an analysis of the Renaissance social system C) Compare it to Greek mythology D) List all characters
A) Between rich and poor B) Between permitted and unpermitted language C) Between church and state D) Between prose and poetry
A) As a religious cult B) As a political party C) As a literary mode D) As a social institution
A) As a legal system B) As a physical disease C) As a social institution D) As a literary mode
A) Between the social and the literary B) Between royalty and peasants C) Between science and religion D) Between animals and humans
A) The collectivity B) The individual ego C) Solitude D) Monarchy
A) As an organized military unit B) As a random and chaotic mob C) As a strict hierarchy D) As a whole organized to defy socioeconomic and political organization
A) Divided by caste B) Ranked by wealth C) Separated by age D) Equal
A) In the town square B) In the royal palace C) Inside the church D) Within the courthouse
A) A unique sense of time and space B) A monetary reward C) A legal contract D) A royal decree
A) They leave the town B) They cease to be themselves C) They become a king D) They fall asleep
A) Through sleep and dreams B) Through costume and mask C) Through magic and spells D) Through birth and death
A) An interest in formal education B) A fear of mortality C) A desire for political power D) A heightened awareness of sensual, material, bodily unity
A) The pastoral B) The tragic C) The sublime D) The grotesque
A) Its unity in time and historic immortality B) Its political irrelevance C) Its brief lifespan D) Its financial ruin
A) Royal bloodlines B) Written literature C) Religious salvation D) Continual death and renewal
A) A book B) A calendar C) A mirror D) A type of clock
A) Singing, dancing, and crying B) Running, jumping, and swimming C) Sleeping, working, and thinking D) Eating, evacuation, and sex
A) As a punishment B) As a weapon C) As a measuring device D) As a disguise
A) Alcofribas Nasier B) James Joyce C) William Shakespeare D) François Rabelais
A) 14th century B) 15th century C) 17th century D) 16th century
A) Sorbonne censors B) Dipsodes C) Giants D) Fairies
A) Collège de la Sorbonne B) The French Academy C) The University of Paris D) The Dipsode Council
A) Biblical figures B) Historical French monarchs C) Classical Greek myths D) Various folk tales
A) Pantagrueline Tales B) Sorbonne Records C) Gargantuan Chronicles D) Dipsode Legends
A) Les Cinq livres des faits et dits B) Pantagruel roy des dipsodes C) The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds D) Les Grandes et Inestimables Cronicques du grant et enorme geant Gargantua
A) Progressively without a preliminary plan B) Following a strict multi-year outline C) Based on a pre-written theatrical script D) Collaboratively by a team of authors
A) The Dipsode King B) Alcofribas Nasier C) François Rabelais D) Morgan le Fay
A) 1532 B) 1600 C) 1560 D) 1500
A) Morgan le Fay B) The Sorbonne censors C) Alcofribas Nasier D) The King of the Dipsodes
A) Alcofribas companions B) Sorbonne censors C) Fairies D) Dipsodes
A) Inside his mouth B) With his hands C) With his tongue D) Under his giant coat
A) To the universities B) Into the besieged city C) To Fairyland D) Into Pantagruel's mouth
A) Picrochole B) Panurge C) Bacbuc D) Grandgousier
A) Rome B) Paris C) London D) The Divine Bottle
A) Fouaces B) Wine C) Bread D) Pork
A) Soldiers B) Kings C) Monks D) Shepherds
A) Panurge B) Bacbuc C) Grandgousier D) Picrochole
A) A play B) A collection of poems C) A dialogue D) A series of letters
A) Baking B) Warfare C) Sailing D) Marriage
A) Picrochole B) The Divine Bottle C) Grandgousier D) The bakers
A) Picrochole B) Bacbuc C) Grandgousier D) Fouace
A) French B) Hebrew C) Latin D) Greek
A) Calm waters B) A storm C) A whirlpool D) A tsunami
A) A giant fish B) A flying pig-monster C) A giant whale D) A sea-monster
A) Bakers B) Chitterlings C) Dipsodes D) Shepherds
A) Wrestling combat B) Sword combat C) Culinary combat D) Naval combat
A) A violent storm B) Grandgousier's army C) A flying pig-monster D) The Divine Bottle
A) 1564 B) 1553 C) 1546 D) 1572
A) Birds B) Lawyers C) Elephants D) Cats
A) By paying a fine B) By defeating the Queen C) By answering a riddle D) By drinking wine
A) Protracted court cases B) Wine C) Fresh fruit D) Liquid text
A) A blindfolded chess match B) A mechanical chess match C) A giant stone chess match D) A living-figure chess match
A) Queen Lanternland B) Queen Bacbuc C) Queen Quintessence D) Queen Semiquaver
A) Catholic birds B) Furred Law-Cats C) Fat tool-makers D) Monstrous Hearsay
A) The Queendom of Whims B) Ringing Island C) Lanternland D) Satin Island
A) Drink B) Right C) Marry D) Trinc
A) Liquid text B) Holy water C) Melted wax D) Sacred wine
A) Law B) Chess C) Riddles D) Wine
A) Fight B) Travel C) Write D) Marry
A) 1546 B) 1553 C) 1564 D) 1572
A) J. M. Cohen B) Mireille Huchon C) Donald M. Frame D) M. A. Screech
A) M. A. Screech's B) J. M. Cohen's C) Mireille Huchon's D) Pantagruel's
A) 10–25 B) 17–48 C) 30–60 D) 1–16
A) Sileni B) Plato C) Homer D) Aristotle
A) Merry frivolous pictures B) Portraits of kings C) Abstract geometric patterns D) Dark religious symbols
A) The moral teachings B) The Latin footnotes C) The ludicrous surface D) The hidden wisdom
A) The literal history B) The hidden wisdom C) The author's biography D) The political conspiracies
A) John Parkin B) Rudnytsky C) Inigo Jones D) Bernd Renner
A) The supreme master of tragedy B) The world's greatest comic genius C) The father of modern science D) The premier satirical poet
A) The entire satirical spectrum B) Strictly theological debates C) Only medieval politics D) Purely romantic adventures
A) The absolute power of the monarch B) The total destruction of the church C) The readers' capacity for critical independent thinking D) The preservation of feudal traditions
A) Radical financial taxation B) Complete structural dissolution C) Evangelical reform D) Absolute papal supremacy
A) Inigo Jones B) Bernd Renner C) Rudnytsky D) John Parkin
A) Physical violence B) Severe taxation C) Laughter D) Royal decrees
A) Modern science B) Medieval scholarship C) Renaissance art D) Classical philosophy
A) Evangelical reform B) Critical thinking C) Ritual prayer D) Humanist learning
A) Dogmatic Protestantism B) Liberal Protestantism C) Early Christianity D) Orthodox Christianity
A) Charles V B) Charlemagne C) Julius Caesar D) Napoleon Bonaparte
A) ענק Anak B) חכם Chacham C) גרגרן Gargrån D) ליצן Litzan
A) Greek rhapsodos B) Latin rabidus C) Spanish rabano D) French ravaler
A) 1534 B) 1567 C) 1600 D) 1565
A) Gulliver's Travels B) Songes drolatiques Pantagruel C) The Symposium D) The History of Gargantua
A) Ben Jonson B) John Donne C) Shakespeare D) Inigo Jones
A) Conclusive B) Nonexistent C) Definitive D) Suggestive
A) Laurence Sterne B) Ben Jonson C) James Joyce D) Jonathan Swift
A) Terence Cave B) Thomas Urquhart C) J. M. Cohen D) Peter Anthony Motteux
A) Donald M. Frame B) M. A. Screech C) Thomas Urquhart D) Peter Anthony Motteux
A) Early sixteenth-century B) Mid eighteenth-century C) Late seventeenth-century D) Nineteenth-century
A) Pro-monarchist satire B) Anti-monarchist satire C) Anti-Catholic satire D) Pro-Catholic satire
A) Strictly literal B) Direct and rigid C) Extremely free D) Highly abbreviated
A) Completely literal B) A little more restrained C) Much more expanded D) Extremely chaotic
A) A joy to read for its own self B) A brilliant recasting C) Savory and picturesque D) No better than competent hackwork
A) Remains faithful B) Invariably impoverishes C) Always expands D) Perfects the style
A) The Third Book, Chapter Seven B) The Fourth Book, Chapter Ten C) The Fifth Book, Chapter Five D) The First Book, Chapter One |
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