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

2. What leader does Pantagruel challenge to single combat in Pantagruel: Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Solomon.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Carpalim.
(d) Loup Garou.

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

4. Pantagruel: Dixain was written by whom?
(a) Maitre Hughes Salel.
(b) Almyrodes.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Francois Rabelais.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many generations of Pantagruel's genealogy are described in Pantagruel: Chapter One?

2. Who summons the inhabitants of the city to set fire to the Dipsodes' camp in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?

3. In Pantagruel: Prologue, the author compared the novel to what literary genre?

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

5. What English scholar comes to visit Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Thirteen?

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