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

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

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

4. 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) Solomon.
(b) Panurge.
(c) Anarch.
(d) Thaumaste.

5. What does Pantagruel intend to have a look at with his friend in Pantagruel: Chapter Eleven?
(a) La Follie-Gobelin.
(b) The walls of Paris.
(c) Dipsodes' camp.
(d) Pygmies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Panurge talk of having escaped because they wanted to roast him alive in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?

2. What does the name Pantagruel mean?

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

4. In Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two, the people of Dipsodes surrender to Pantagruel, except for whom?

5. How many knights approach Pantagruel's vessel in Pantagruel: Chapter Sixteen?

(see the answer key)

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