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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. Whose reputation grows after winning the dispute against the Englishman in Pantagruel: Chapter Fourteen?
(a) Thaumaste's.
(b) Gargantua's.
(c) Frere Jean's.
(d) Panurge's.

2. In Pantagruel: Chapter Twenty-two, the people of Dipsodes surrender to Pantagruel, except for whom?
(a) Almyrodes.
(b) King Anarch.
(c) Epistemon.
(d) Panurge.

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

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

5. What position is offered to Pantagruel in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?
(a) President of Court.
(b) Receiver of Petitions.
(c) Receiver of Petitions and President of Court.
(d) President of Petitions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pantagruel receive instead of the office in Pantagruel: Chapter Ten?

3. To what king does Pantagruel send the prisoner in Pantagruel: Chapter Eighteen?

4. What does the name Pantagruel mean?

5. 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"?

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