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