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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Pantagruel refuses the offer given to him in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten because he believes such offices are like what?
(a) Priesthood.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Vacations.
(d) Too high above him.

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"?
(a) Thaumaste.
(b) Anarch.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Panurge.

3. Where is Pantagruel sent to study in Pantagruel: Chapter 5?
(a) Poitiers.
(b) Bourges.
(c) Paris.
(d) Orleans.

4. What does Grandgousier give to each pilgrim for their journey in Gargantua: Chapter Forty-three?
(a) A horse.
(b) Ten gold coins.
(c) Arrows.
(d) A sword.

5. What is the name of Pantagruel's mother?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) Badebec.
(c) Cepola.
(d) Abbaye.

6. Pantagruel advises Panurge to foretell whether he will have a good or bad marriage from what in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen?
(a) An encyclopedia.
(b) His dreams.
(c) The clouds.
(d) The works of Homer.

7. Who does Pantagruel assign the castellany of Salmagundi in Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter Two?
(a) Panurge.
(b) Frere Jean.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Solomon.

8. What is the name of Pantagruel's father?
(a) Badebec.
(b) Cepola.
(c) Rabelais.
(d) Gargantua.

9. Where does Pantagruel send Carpalim in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Paris.
(b) Dipsodia.
(c) Orleans.
(d) Amaurots.

10. What is made for Gargantua in Gargantua: Chapter Eleven?
(a) A dirt hut.
(b) A woven basket.
(c) A wooden horse.
(d) A paper doll.

11. Gargantua's countrymen get into a dispute with the bakers of where in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-three?
(a) Paris.
(b) Lerne.
(c) The Isle of Ennasin.
(d) Arcea-Galeau.

12. Who does King Picrochole send to patrol in Gargantua: Chapter Forty-one?
(a) Gargantua.
(b) Comte de Rushin.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Hastyveal.

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

14. In Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-one, le Comte Spandassaino and Captain Squirt use what to convince Picrochole to attack the cities and fortresses of Utopia?
(a) Passion.
(b) Conviction.
(c) Flattery.
(d) Lies.

15. What land does Pantagruel subdue in the beginning of Third Book of Pantagruel: Chapter One?
(a) Arcea-Galeau.
(b) France.
(c) Dipsody.
(d) The islands of Tohu and Bohu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occupation does Seraphin Calobarsy hold?

2. What does Gargantua accidentally swallow the six pilgrims with in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-six?

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

4. What does Gargantua attempt to devote himself to in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty?

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

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