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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who consults Seraphin Calobarsy to set Gargantua on a better path in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty-one?
(a) Carpalim.
(b) Ponocrates.
(c) Solomon.
(d) Badebec.

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

3. With whose wisdom is Pantagruel's compared in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) Moses.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Mohammed.
(d) Solomon.

4. To what king does Pantagruel send the prisoner in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?
(a) King Fasil.
(b) King Blaine.
(c) King Anarch.
(d) King Bodum.

5. What does the name Pantagruel mean?
(a) Giant man.
(b) Cruel leader.
(c) All thirst.
(d) All love.

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

7. How many men in copper spheres are sent into Pantagruel's stomach to dislodge a mountain of ordure in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-three?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Eight.

8. What does the midwife administer to Gargantua's mother when she goes into labor?
(a) Milk.
(b) A poison.
(c) A constrictive.
(d) A pain killer.

9. Who summons the inhabitants of the city to set fire to the Dipsodes' camp in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Rabelais.
(b) Carpalim.
(c) King Anarch.
(d) Loup Garou.

10. For how long is Gargantua's mother pregnant with Gargantua?
(a) One hundred weeks.
(b) Seventy days.
(c) Two years.
(d) Eleven months.

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

12. What English scholar comes to visit Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen?
(a) Prince Charles.
(b) Panurge.
(c) Thaumaste.
(d) Solomon.

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

14. What does Gargantua attempt to devote himself to in Gargantua: Chapter Twenty?
(a) Study.
(b) Work.
(c) Play.
(d) Chess.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Panurge dress as a crier of green sauce in order to settle him into a trade in Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-one?

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. What occupation does Seraphin Calobarsy hold?

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

5. Who claims that many monks are lazy in Gargantua: Chapter Thirty-eight?

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