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