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