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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pantagruel: Chapters 18-23, Pantagrueline Prognostication for 1533 and Prefaces to Almanacs for 1533 and 1535 (p. 133-194).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What man with a Germanic tongue does Pantagruel meet in Pantagruel: Chapter Nine?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) Panurge.
(c) Hugh.
(d) Ulysses.

2. In Pantagruel: Prologue, the author compared the novel to what literary genre?
(a) Non-fiction.
(b) Medieval romances.
(c) Medieval fairy tales.
(d) Medieval war tales.

3. What does Pantagruel cover his men with from the rain in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two?
(a) His ear.
(b) His hair.
(c) His tongue.
(d) His foot.

4. Who among Pantagruel's men has his neck slit in Pantagruel: Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Loup Garou.
(b) Almyrodes.
(c) Carpalim.
(d) Epistemon.

5. Pantagruel: Introduction explains that this is the first edition of "Pantagruel" which was dated when?
(a) 1513 or 1514.
(b) 1515 or 1516.
(c) 1522 or 1523.
(d) 1531 or 1532.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whose wisdom is Pantagruel's compared in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?

2. Of whom is it written, "if ever there was such a one in Paris, a felon, a cheat, a tippler, a loafer, a scrounger, but that apart, the nicest young lad in the world"?

3. How many novels are contained in the collection "Gargantua and Pantagruel" by Francois Rabelais?

4. What plagues Africa during Pantagruel's birth?

5. What does the name Pantagruel mean?

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