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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction, Rabelais to Mind of the Queen of Navarre, the King's Privilege, Prologue and Chapters 1-13 (p. 389-461).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose defeat does Carpalim announce to the city in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) King Anarch's.
(b) Janotus'.
(c) Epistemon's
(d) Solomon's.

2. Who does Pantagruel learn have laid waste to Utopia in Pantagruel: Chapter Fifteen?
(a) The Amazons.
(b) The Turks.
(c) The English.
(d) The Dipsodes.

3. Where does Pantagruel's army march to take the entire kingdom by force in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Dipsodia.
(b) Paris.
(c) Amaurots.
(d) The Isle of Ennasin.

4. What does Gargantua's father exclaim upon Gargantua's birth?
(a) "Che-mien-au-ju"
(b) "Que-petit-tu-as."
(c) "Que-grant-tu-as!"
(d) "Oh-la-la."

5. What is the name of Gargantua's father?
(a) Grandgousier.
(b) Janotus.
(c) Magister Janotus de Bragmardo.
(d) Ponocrates.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pantagruel: Introduction explains that this is the first edition of "Pantagruel" which was dated when?

3. What is the name of the abbey built by Gargantua in Gargantua: Chapter Fifty?

4. For how long is Gargantua's mother pregnant with Gargantua?

5. What gives permission to the king to print and sell Rabelais' book as written in Third Book of Pantagruel: Introduction?

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